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Mythology


Mythology



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Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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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
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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
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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
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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...

Head of an Assyrian god. Middle Bronze, around 1600 BCE from Djabbul, Mesopotamia Basalte, H: 35 cm AO 10 831
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Head of an Assyrian god. Middle Bronze, around 16...

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
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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...

Sphinx. Carved ivory relief (2nd half 9th BCE) from Hadatu (Arslan-Tash), Northern Syria Height 7.9 cm
#08020864

Sphinx. Carved ivory relief (2nd...

Marble intarsia from a hall in Palace G, Ebla. The figures of warriors and mythological animals were arranged in 12 rows on a wall,possibly to celebrate a victory. Lion-headed eagle and bull with a human face Around 2.400 BCE H: 14-15 cm
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Marble intarsia from a hall in Palace G, Ebla. The figures of warriors...

Sphinx, with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt and the false beard of the Pharaohs. Probably part of an entrance gate to an Aramaic temple or palace in Damascus, then capital of Aram. 9th-8th BCE Basalt, H:80 cm Inv. 30
#08020928

Sphinx, with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt and the false beard of t...