A Roman Marble Winged Lion-Griffin, ca. 1st - 2nd century CE Sculpture - Metal The gold dot has been

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A graceful and remarkably well-preserved wooden figure of an Egyptian dignitary

A single column of vertical text runs down the front that reads: “Illuminate

Melbourne1993 Northern Territory Art Award

une île grecque aux portes de l’Orient

A Roman Marble Winged Lion-Griffin, ca. 1st - 2nd century CE Sculpture - Metal The gold dot has beenWith its head held erect in ever watchful alertness, hooked beak gaping wide as if screaming a warning, this griffin is the perfect visual embodiment of its fearful mythological subject. These hybrid monsters with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle were inspired in classical Greco Roman times by the descriptions of beaked quadruped dinosaur fossils in gold deposits of Central Asia. Symbol of divine power and authority, this majestic