Фригийска шапка
от Уикипедия, свободната енциклопедия
Фригийската шапка, наричана още Шапка на свободата, е мека шапка с конична форма и с връх, издаден напред. Носена е от древното население на Фригия (фриги), регион в днешна Анадола.
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[редактиране] От Античността до норманите
През Античността често върху гръцките вази с фригийска шапка на главата е изобразяван троянския герой Парис, като по този начин се е отбелязвал неговият негръцки произход. Римските поети обикновено използвали епитета "фригиец" в значение на троянец. Фригийската шапка може да се види изобразена върху Траяновата колона, издигната в спомен на победите на император Траян над даките, а също така и върху Арката на Септимий Север, издигната в чест на победата на римляните над Партия. The Македонските, тракийските, дакийските и норманските (12 век) шлемове имат подобна форма, наподобяваща фригийската шапка.
Фригийската шапка носи елинистичен римски синкретизъм, въпреки че е прозлиза от персийския бог на спасението Митра. Същата мека шапка се вижда и от стенописите на Казанлъшката гробница от 4 век. (илюстрация).
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Фригийската шапка е носена по времето на Римската империя от бивши роби, които са били освободени от техните господари, следователно техните потомци са граждани на Рим, за това носенето й се е използвала често като израз или символ на свободата. In Byzantium, Anatolian Phrygia lay to the east of Constantinople, and thus in 6th-century Ravenna, part of the Eastern Empire, the three Magi wear Phrygian caps, as generic "easterners" (illustration, left),
[редактиране] Икона на революцията
During the 18th century, the red Phrygian cap evolved into a symbol of freedom, held aloft on a Liberty Pole during the American Revolutionary War. It was also adopted during the French Revolution, and to this day the national emblem of France, Marianne, is shown wearing a Phrygian cap. The cap was also incorporated into the symbol of the late 18th century Irish revolutionary organisation the Society of the United Irishmen.
[редактиране] American symbolism
Many of the anti-colonial revolutions in North and South America were heavily inspired by the imagery and slogans of the French Revolution. As a result, the cap has appeared on the coat of arms of many Latin American nations. An effigy of "Liberty" was shown holding the Liberty Pole and Phrygian cap on some early United States of America coinage (pictured right). It also appears on the State flag of West Virginia, New Jersey and New York, as well as the official seals of the United States Army and the United States Senate. The cap had also been displayed on certain Mexican coins (most notably the old 8 Reales coin) through the late 19th century into the mid 20th century. Today, it is featured of the coats of arms or national flags of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina, Colombia, Haiti, and Cuba.
In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the Capitol Building then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included of a statue of Justice on the grounds that, "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave." (Gale, p. 124) The cap was not included in the final marble version that is now on the building.
The seal of Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, also contains a Liberty Cap. The college, endowed by Founding Father John Dickinson at the behest of Benjamin Rush, was the first to be chartered in the new Republic.
Washington Irving also propounded the surprise of his famous protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, by adding to the details of Rip's newly post-revolutionary village a "tall naked poll, with something on it that looked like a red night cap..."
[редактиране] Medical Term
The Phrygian cap is also a term used for an anatomical variant of the gallbladder seen in 1-6% of patients who have ultrasound exams or contrast studies of their gallbladders. It is caused by a fold or division at the point where the tip of the gallbladder (the head) joins the main part of the gallbladder (the body), and is named for its resemblance to the cap above. Apart from being the chance of being mistaken for stones on ultrasound, it has no other medical implications nor does it predispose one to other diseases.
[редактиране] In Literature
- The revolutionist protagonists of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress often wear a liberty cap. It is referred to exclusively as such. It becomes a fashion article at one point, and is once placed on a telephone terminal open to the A.I. character "Mike."
- The popular cartoon characters The Smurfs, are famous for their white phrygian hats.
[редактиране] Sources and resources
Gale, Robert L. Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1964
[редактиране] External links
- The Phrygian cap and Liberty cap Illustrated history of the Phrygian cap and its adoption as a "Liberty cap" by republics in France and the Americas.
