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alone of all created things
une île grecque aux portes de l’Orient
accession number: 74
acquired in 1980 from the Faust Art Gallery in Cologne
A Roman Marble Winged Lion-Griffin, ca. 1st - 2nd century CE Sculpture - Metal alone of all created thingsWith 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
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