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An Assyrian carving.
It's tantalisingly referred to as an 'unidentified monster'.

Photo taken at The British Museum.

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:icondarkhumour:
it was supposidly the mother of all creation in egypt

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But no place can it blossom more,
In some, but not in all cases,
Than in the eyes of a broken before. ~ Rebecca Eccles

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:iconneocene:
Its probably an Alien.

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:iconneko---star:
No... Dragon!

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:iconlethe-gray:
>_> Looks like a gryphon to me.

Assyrians had some badass creatures, though. And some beautiful carvings.

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:icontoonime:
It looks like a large cat with bird wings.

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:iconmajna:
aincent cultures and there hybrid beasties if at first you dont know what the hell it is stick a fish tail on and its a mermaid either that or just start praying to it as a god
:iconaurorastar1:
I just did some looking around on google and found a couple of pics similar to this carving, it is indeed a type of griffon. [link] [link]

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:iconunpronouncable:
that's Tia'mat, isn't it? the chaos demon?

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:icondinodude0091:
Naw, man. Tiamat is Sumerian and more Dragon-like.

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Jun 3, 2009, 5:57:15 PM

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