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mural crown
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Mural crown
A
mural crown
is a
crown
or headpiece representing
city walls
or
tower
s. In
classical antiquity
, it was an emblem of
tutelary deities
who watched over a city, and among the
Romans
a
military decoration
. Later the mural crown developed into a symbol of European
heraldry
, mostly for cities and towns, and in the 19th and 20th centuries was used in some
republican
heraldry.
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