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A sun with a human face, surrounded by alternating straight and wavy rays.
Also known as: Sun in his splendour
The heraldic sun: a disc bearing a human face, encircled by rays alternately straight and wavy. Adopted as a badge by Edward IV, reportedly after a parhelion seen before the battle of Mortimer's Cross.
A sun depicted as a disc with a human face, surrounded by rays drawn alternately straight and wavy.
Adopted as a personal badge by Edward IV of England; chroniclers connect the adoption to a parhelion — three apparent suns — reported before the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461.
England · 15th century
A circular sun with a human face at its centre, ringed by rays that alternate between straight points and wavy lines.
Both depict the sun, but the heraldic version has a human face and alternating rays.