11 Items Tagged "hybrid"

Supporting image for Pan statue

This statue depicts Pan teaching Daphnis how to play the Pan flute. Pan was once chasing the nymph Syrinx, who flew to the river Ladon and transformed herself…

Supporting image for Pan statue

The hybrid god Pan is known as an erotic god. He was chasing and seducing nymphs, shepherd boys and goats. As you can see in the picture, the…

Supporting image for griffin mosaic

This picture shows the inside of the Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul, where the griffin mosaic can be seen today.

Pan Pulling A Thorn

This is a Roman copy of Pan pulling a thorn from a Satyr believed to have been made between the 1st and 2nd century B.C. It is a…

Goat Fish Class Notes

Fish-goat – Guess is that it is made out of bronze – Leslie thought maybe it was made of wood at first – No colour scheme as it…

Supporting image for Nefertari´s tomb painting

This picture shows a relief of the hybrid god Khnum and was found in Esna in the temple of Khnum.

Griffin-Headed Demon

Griffin-Headed Demon. Toprakkale, Urarta 10 cm tall. 8th-7th century BCE. Ivory. Sculpted in relief. Housed at The Anatolian Civilization Museum and The British Museum The Griffin- headed demon…

Mountain Goat: Proto-Elamite Period

This Silver Scultpture of a Mountain Goat with a golden head is one of many sculptures dsicovered from Susa, Iran during the proto-elamite period that are detailed with…

Nisroch – Close up of detailed carving

This is a close up view of a stone carving of Nisroch the Assyrian god of agriculture. Our group found the details in the texturing of the stone…

The guardian of the gates; Lamassu

This is a supportive image for Lamassu from the Louvre in Paris. Lamassu is a protective hybrid that is usually found in pairs. They either guard palaces or…

Nisroch – Assyrian god of agriculture