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Pegu, c. 1479.University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum  

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Drinking vessel: Date: ca. 4th century BCE – 2nd century CE Medium: Gold Uranium, Thorium—4Helium dating, Asia.

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Siren:Date: c. 5th Century BCE Medium: Gold Size: 6 1/8” h, Asia.

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Bracket with a woman riding a fantastic creature, made in Begram, Afghanistan, 1st-2nd century



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A polychrome painted wood Architectural Strut Kerala, South India, circa 1800 depicting a mythical vyala, with bulging eyes, gaping mouth and elaborate mane, in rearing position with an apsaras riding on its back 156 cm.

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Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon, Egyptian, ca. 400-250BC, late Period-Early Greco-Roman.

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The name Nergal, Nirgal, or Nirgali refers to a deity in Babylon with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of Cuth (Cuthah): “And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal” (2 Kings, 17:30). According to the rabbins, his emblem was a cock and Nergal means a “dunghill cock”. He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil.

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Furniture element

Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian. 10th–9th century B.C. 

Legacy dimension: H: 5.3 cm W: 1.9 cm x D: .8 cm 

Silver 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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The Babylonians believed that the demoness Lamashtu was responsible for still births and cot-deaths. A woman would have worn this quartzite stone amulet (now broken) during pregnancy and labour so that the fierce demons on it, and the incantation on the back, would scare Lamashtu away

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A Lamassu (Sumerian: dlamma; Akkadian: lamassu), is a protective deity, often depicted with a bull or lion’s body, eagle’s wings, and human’s head. In some writings, it is portrayed to represent a female deity. A less frequently used name is shedu (Sumerian: dalad; Akkadian, šēdu; Hebrew: שד) which refers to the male counterpart of a lamassu.

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MUSHUSSU - Babylon dragon of Chaos.

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Figure of a Recumbent Lamassu 

Neo-Sumerian

Musée du Louvre

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Assyrian, 883-859. The Brooklyn Museum

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Breastplate

Neo-Assyrian, 800-500 BC

The National Museum of Asian Art

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Statuette of Pazuzu

Assyrian, beginning of the 1st millennium BC

Musée du Louvre

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Cheekpiece in the form of a winged human-headed bull

ca. 800 – 600 B.C.Iranian 

Princeton University Art Museum

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Cheekpiece in the form of a winged mouflon

ca. 1000 – 750 B.C.Iranian 

Princeton University Art Museum

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Molded plaque of a griffin genie (apkallu)

late 9th – 7th century B.C. Neo- Assyrian

Princeton University Art Museum

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Amulet of a winged goddess

Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Piankhy (Piye), 743–712 B.C.

Findspot: El-Kurru, Nubia (Sudan)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Amulet of a winged goddess

Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Piankhy (Piye), 743–712 B.C.

Findspot: el-Kurru, Nubia(Sudan)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots

Period: Proto-Elamite Date: ca. 3000 B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia or Iran

This solid-cast sculpture is one of a pair of nearly identical images of a hero or a demon wearing the upturned boots associated with highland regions, his power enhanced by the mighty horns of the ibex on his head and the body and wings of a bird of prey draped around his shoulders. It was created at the time the first cities emerged in ancient Sumer. A new world view conceived of human figures in realistic terms, through accurate proportions and highly modelled forms with distinctive features - here, the triple belt and beard that define divine beings and royalty. The blending of human and animal forms to visualize the supernatural world and perhaps to express shamanistic beliefs, however, is more characteristic of the contemporary arts of Proto-Elamite Iran, where a remarkable tradition of metalworking developed during this period.

Source: Metropolitan Museum

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Mushussu (also known as Mushhushshu or Sirrush) is the Dragon of Babylon and one of two animals depicted on the Ishtar Gate. 

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Лилит.

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На веревке аннунаки привели монстра к Эа.Нечем тут хвастаться,опять урод получился,не способный к продолжению рода,а оно,пожалуй,и к лучшему.

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Человекоподобный монстр охотиться за звероподобным монстром.

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Megiddo. An applique (12th Century BCE) showing a winged sphinx .
Кормящая мама-сфинкс)) В руках настольная лампа))

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Стамбульский археологический музей

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Berner Münster, Bern

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Bronze and Silver. 1st-3rd Century AD

Roman Imperial Period

Bronze decorative fitting, perhaps for a carriage or a boat: figure of Cupid emerging from a plant; his eyes and inside feathers are silver.

Source: British Museum

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Stone plaque of Narasimha slaying the demon Hiranyakashipu

Kashmir, late 6th century - early 7th century AD
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

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Leonine headed spirit votive figure. 700-600 BC

Made in Mesopotamia. Late Babylonian

 The British Museum