Faravahardisputed

Winged disc with a human figure — today the best-known symbol of Zoroastrianism and of Iran.

Tradition: zoroastrian, persian · Period: Achaemenid (6th–4th c. BCE), from Assyrian winged-disc models

Disputed: What it depicted for the Achaemenids (Ahura Mazda, the fravashi, or royal khvarenah) is disputed; the fravashi reading is 20th-century.

Figures: Ahura Mazda · Zarathustra

Sources

• Faravahar

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