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En tête de la procession, défilent des joueurs de flûte, de nageshvaram et de tambour, des danseurs et des danseuses portant sur leurs épaules le grand arceau de plumes de paon (kavadi) et sur leurs têtes des pots de terre cuite dans lesquels brûleront du camphre.
(Source: Temple de Ganesh)
Here's the whole north side of the kavad with both east and west panels open. The three windows on the left-center will be for the Druid elements or something from the scale of three in Agrippa. The twelve windows on the right will be the signs of the zodiac, and the triangles around them (outer columns) could just be color scales. Not sure yet. The eight circles in the middle... Birth stones, maybe? Signs of eight major stars? (royal stars in the four above? Four minor stars in the ones below? Maybe worth it to redesign this panel so each zodiac sign has a major star in it... hmmm. Decisions, decisions....)
This was purchased as a silver drachm, 35 mm, 4.21 grams, attributed in the 1970's to a Sassanian Persian king c. 500 AD. It may, however, be one of the numerous, contemporary local imitations.
The Sassanians ruled Iran and Iraq from the first half of the 3rd century until the Muslim Arab invasions of the mid 7th century AD. At various times they controlled what is now Syria, Armenia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt and other peoples to their north, south and east.
Harmer Rooke auction 19 May 1972, 468 "Kavad I. 499 AD".
I'm not happy with any of these drawings — which is appropriate for a Saturnday. One of the things that I like about this project, though, is that I'm prototyping a whole architecture and decoration scheme. Which means that I'm setting up my sketching and drawing curriculum for the next good long while.