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Persian Sphinxes. Palace of Darius I, Susa, Persian Empire. C. 500 BC. Glazed brick sphinxes in one of the friezes of the palace. The relief shows a pair of winged lions with bearded human heads. The winged disc of Ahura-Mazda hovers above them. Traditional Persian iconography... [1080x1080] [OC]
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Mycenaean bronze sword with a golden hilt, 16th century BC., Mycenae, Greece. The hilt and shoulder are decorated in the cloisonne technique, in which the scale-pattern compartments are inlaid with lapis lazuli. The hilt design ends in two griffin or eagle heads [1920x623] [OC].
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Stele of Princess Nefertiabet and her food for the afterlife. Giza, Egypt. 4th Dinasty, 2600 BC. Louvre Museum, Paris. [1571x1080]
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Antelope Fresco, Akrotiri, Thera (now Santorini), Greece, 1700 BC. Thera is regarded as part of the Minoan world, although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete, and the political relationship between the two islands at the time is unclear... [1920x1491] [OC]
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Detail of two confronted griffins, one of the four panels with embossed representations on a Bronze sheet, probably a decorative cover of an object. Possibly work of Samian workshop, about 600 BC. From the Sanctuary of Olympia, Greece [1920x1080] [OC]
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Mycenaean bronze sword with a golden hilt, 16th century BC., Mycenae, Greece. The hilt and shoulder are decorated in the cloisonne technique, in which the scale-pattern compartments are inlaid with lapis lazuli. The hilt design ends in two griffin or eagle heads [1920x623] [OC].
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