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Mytological Animals


Mythological animals.



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Parade of musicians, warriors, and animals. Fragment of a Kudurru - middle register. Yellow limestone (Kassite era, 12th BCE), from Babylon, Mesopotamia (Iraq) Overall size: 54 x 36 cm - Sb 25
#08020719

Parade of musicians, warriors, and animals. Fragment of a Kudurru -...

Horse-bit in the form of horned and winged sphinxes. Bronze (1200-600 BCE) from west Iran Cat. 130677
#08020721

Horse-bit in the form of horned and winged sphinxes. Bronze (1200-600 BCE)...

Horse-bit in the form of a winged ram. Bronze (1200-600 BCE) from West Iran Cat. 122930
#08020722

Horse-bit in the form of a winged ram. Bronze (1200-600 BCE)...

Pin-head in the form of a winged dragon (7th BCE) (Popular in Luristan for attaching clothes, the pins became a votiv object) from West Iran Cat. 132057
#08020726

Pin-head in the form of a winged dragon (7th BCE) (Popular in Luristan fo...

Winged genius with body of a lion. Bas-relief on glazed ceramics (8th BCE) from a Neo-Elamite tomb, Susa, Iran. Height 17 cm Sb 375
#08020733

Winged genius with body of a lion. Bas-relief on glazed cer...

Two lions with horns atop a three-registered frieze decorated with different geometrical ornaments. Detail. Enamelled bricks (6th BCE) from the Apadana in Susa. Overall size 31.5 x 26.5 cm Sb 3336
#08020738

Two lions with horns atop a three-registered frieze decorated with different...

Two winged sphinxes topped by a winged disk, emblem of the god Ahura Mazda. Enamelled brick panel (6th-5th BCE) from Susa, Iran. Overall size 120 x 117 cm Sb 3324
#08020739

Two winged sphinxes topped by a winged disk, emblem of the god Ahura...

Embossed ornament in the form of a lion-griffin,gold, from the Oxus Treasure,Achaemenid period,5th-4th BCE. The Oxus Treasure, the most important collection of gold and silver to have survived from the Achaemenid period, is from a temple on the banks of the Oxus,Tajikistan. Cat. 123 924
#08020760

Embossed ornament in the form of a lion-griffin,gold, from the Oxus Treasure,Ach...

Eagle with lion's head. Lapis lazuli, gold, copper and bitumen pendant Early dynastic period II (2658 BCE) from the Treasure of Ur, Mari, Syria
#080208 7

Eagle with lion's head. Lapis lazuli, gold, copp...

Hero fighting or holding two bisons (top of the stele). Anzu, the lion-headed eagle with two ibex (bottom). Fragment of a relief panel with two registers Steatite (2645-2460 BCE) from Mari, Syria
#08020815

Hero fighting or holding two bisons (top of the stele). Anzu, the lion-headed ea...

Mountain-god and two bulls with human heads and arms. Basalt bas-relief on a socle (13th BCE) from Ain Dara, north of Aleppo, Syria
#08020852

Mountain-god and two bulls with human heads and arms. Basalt bas-relief on a s...

Two sphinxes with ram heads. Open ivory relief from a frieze (2nd half 9th BCE) from Hadatu (Arslan-Tash), Northern Syria
#08020863

Two sphinxes with ram heads. Open ivory relief from a...