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Mytological Animals


Mythological animals.



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Cylinder seal and imprint with fabulous animals. Uruk period, around 3300 BCE. MNB 1167
#08021346

Cylinder seal and imprint with fabulous animals. Uruk period, around 3300...

Goblet, electrum, decorated with mythological animals. From Marlik, northern Iran, Iron Age I. AO 21814
#08021368

Goblet, electrum, decorated with mythological animals. From Marlik, no...

Worshipper adoring the Great Goddess,seated on a winged griffin. Her symbols,moon-sickle and stars, in the background. Bronze, H: 4,2 cm AO 23004
#08021437

Worshipper adoring the Great Goddess,seated on a winged griffin. Her symb...

Sphinx, perhaps a fitting for furniture. Hippopotamus ivory,H: 8,5 cm Recent Bronze (14th-12th BCE) From Quatna,Syria AO 20363
#08021468

Sphinx, perhaps a fitting for furniture. Hippopotamus ivory,H: 8,...

Sphinx with human head (Egyptian influence), probably decoration of a piece of furniture.The sphinx belongs to a group of outstanding ivories found in a building near the palace of Arslan Tash, N-Syria. Ivory, H: 8,8 cm AO 11475
#08021469

Sphinx with human head (Egyptian influence), probably decoration of a...

Sphinx with a human head (Egyptian influence), probably decoration of a piece of furniture.The sphinx belongs to a group of outstanding ivories found in a builiding next to the palace of Arslan-Tash, North Syria. Ivory, H: 8,5 cm AO 11478
#08021470

Sphinx with a human head (Egyptian influence), probably decoration of a...

Cylinder seal and imprint from Mari, Archaic Dynasties. Top register: agricultural scene, milking cows, goats. Bottom register: Human-headed bull between two heroes with maces;eagle with lion-head. H: 4,3 cm AO 10920
#08021514

Cylinder seal and imprint from Mari, Archaic Dynasties. Top register: agricultur...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period, 16th BCE. Winged centaurs pursuing gazelles. Chalcedony, H: 4 cm AO 22355
#08021517

Cylinder seal and imprint, Kassite period, 16th BCE. Winged centaurs pursuing...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Neo-Babylonian period 612-539 BCE. Seal of a Babylonian physician; a sphinx. Lapis lazuli, H: 4,1 cm AO 4485
#08021520

Cylinder seal and imprint, Neo-Babylonian period 612-539 BCE....

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian period. A hero with sickle-like weapon (harpe), fighting a griffin; another figure carrying a dead moufflon and hare. Cornelian, H: 3,3 cm AO 9040
#08021524

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian period. A hero with sickle-like...

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian period. Hunt by centaurs with bow and arrow. Agate, H: 4,3 cm AO 22342
#08021525

Cylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian period. Hunt by centaurs with bo...

Seal and imprint, Assyrian, 9th-6th BCE.Cultic scene, a man and a geni around the horned dragon, symbol of the gods Marduk and Nabu. Cornelian, H: 2,4 cm AO 22346
#08021543

Seal and imprint, Assyrian, 9th-6th BCE.Cultic scene, a man and a geni around...