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Plate with dog-headed bird, Sasanian, 7th century. Gilded silver dish showing a legendary dog-headed bird known as "senmurw". It appears in the Late Sasanian period of the 6th century in embroidered roundels on textiles. Sometimes it sits on the tree of life and, by beating its wings, scatters the seeds across the earth. In 637 the Sasanians were defeated by an Arab army. ANE 124095
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Plate with dog-headed bird, Sasanian, 7th century. Gilded silver dish showing a...

Stucco plaque of a legendary dog-headed bird known as senmurw. This fabulous animal first appears in the late Sasanian period of the 6th century in embroidered roundels on textiles. In one tradition it sits on the tree of life and by beating its wings spreads the tree's seeds across the earth. ANE 135913
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Stucco plaque of a legendary dog-headed bird known as senmurw. This fabulous ani...

Hump-backed pottery bull, Amlash culture, from the Marlik region, north-west Iran, early 1st millennium BC. This vessel belongs to the Amlash culture of Gilan province in north-west Iran, one of the most distinctive Iranian cultures of the late second and early first millennia BC. This type of vessel, in the form of a hump-backed bull may have had a ceremonial function, although they were certainly also placed in graves. Examples were excavated at Marlik Tepe, one of the richest cemeteries of the region. Here fifty-three intact tombs were excavated in 1961-62. Thirty-three burnished zoomorphic vessels (that is, in animal form) were excavated, and these were in the form of not only of hump-backed bulls but also stags, rams, horses or donkeys and even a leopard. These containers were clearly intended as pourers, but their exact function remains uncertain. ANE, 132973
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Hump-backed pottery bull, Amlash culture, from the Marlik region, north-west Ira...

Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, from the region of Takht-i Kuwad, Tadjikistan, 5th-4th century BC. This remarkable model is one of the most outstanding pieces in the Oxus treasure, which dates mainly from the 5th and 4th centuries BC, and is the most important surviving collection of gold and silver to have survived from the Achaemenid period. The model chariot is pulled by four horses or ponies. In it are two figures wearing Median dress. The Medes were from Iran, the centre of the Achaemenid empire. The front of the chariot is decorated with the Egyptian dwarf-god Bes, a popular protective deity. ANE, 123908
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Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, from the region o...

A phenix,mythologicl bird,rising from the ashes. Ivory carving,back of chair No.3 Detail,total size 58 x 58 cm
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A phenix,mythologicl bird,rising from the ashes. Ivory carving,back of ch...

Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Human headed monster trampling a hind. Bronze, 18 x 18 cm
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Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Human headed monster tr...

Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological animals. Bronze, H:19 cm
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Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological an...

Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological animals. Bronze, H:19 cm
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Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological an...

Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological animals. Bronze, H:19 cm
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Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological an...

Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological animals. Bronze, H:19 cm
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Horsebit from Luristan,Iran,8th-7th BCE Fabulous,mythological an...

Bronze model of a horse-carriage and seated passenger; excavated 1969 at Wu-wei,Kansu,China. H:40 cm, L:63 cm
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Bronze model of a horse-carriage and seated passenger; excavated 1969 at Wu-wei...

Monk,pilgrim,accompanied by a tiger (Xuanzang). China,Donhuang,T'ang Dynasty,end 9th CE Ink and colour on paper, 49,6 x 29,4 cm
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Monk,pilgrim,accompanied by a tiger (Xuanzang). China,Donhuang,T'ang Dyn...