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| Element of coat of arms | English: A phrygian cap on a pole. The symbol originated in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar by a group of Rome's Senators in 44 BC.[1] Immediately after Caesar was killed, the leaders of the assassination plot went to meet a crowd of Romans at the Roman Forum; a pileus (a kind of skullcap that identified a freed slave) was placed atop a pole to symbolize that the Roman people had been freed from the rule of Caesar, which the assassins claimed had become a tyranny because it overstepped the authority of the Senate and thus betrayed the Republic.[2] During the French revolution, the Roman pileus was confused with the Phrygian cap, and this mis-identification then led to the use of the Phrygian cap as a symbol of Republicanism. With or without the pole, the Phrygian cap is now used as a symbol on the state emblems of many republics. |
| Tincture (GN) | orgules |
| Date | 24 December 2012 |
| Artist | R-41 |
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