thumb|right|Female head wearing the polos. Bronze, second half of the 7th century BC. From Crete The '''polos crown (plural poloi'''; ) is a high cylindrical crown worn by mythological goddesses of the Ancient Near East and Anatolia and adopted by the ancient Greeks for imaging the mother goddesses Rhea, Cybele and Hera.
thumb|right|Female head wearing the polos. Bronze, second half of the 7th century BC. From Crete The '''polos crown (plural poloi'''; ) is a high cylindrical crown worn by mythological goddesses of the Ancient Near East and Anatolia and adopted by the ancient Greeks for imaging the mother goddesses Rhea, Cybele and Hera.
The word also meant an axis or pivot and is cognate with the English, 'pole'. It was often open at the top with hair cascading down from the sides, or it could be reduced to a ring.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).