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#TwoForTuesday: two heads are better than one?

Composite Lion and Bull

Northwest Iran, possibly Koffrabad, western Gilan Province, 1500–1000 BCE

Bronze, cast, 11.4 x 9.7 x 14.8 cm (4 1/2 x 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.), 0.98 kg

On display at The Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.122

Additional description from CMA:

“Combining the strength of the lion and the fertility of the bull, this creature must have served as an object of worship in a temple or shrine.”

#animals in art #museum visit #sculpture #bronze #metalwork #ancient art #Iranian art #Cleveland Museum of Art #figure #two-headed animal #hybrid #composite creature #Two for Tuesday #lion #bull

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For this #Baturday, look what I found to go along with SharkBat: CrocBat! 🐊🦇

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Pendant, bat with crocodilian* wings Nicoya, Costa Rica, dated 1-500CE Stone (jadeite?), 1 3/4 × 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (4.4 × 0.6 × 13.3 cm) Bowers Museum 2002.3.46

*🆔Both the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) are native to Costa Rica.

For the previously shared SharkBat, see this post:

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For when it’s still #FintasticFriday but #Baturday is just around the corner… Jade pendant, bat with shark wings Costa Rica, Central Carib

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#animals in art #bat #crocodilian #crocodile #caiman #Costa Rican art #Central American art #Indigenous art #hybrid #composite creature #pendant #stone carving #jadeite #Bowers Museum #Baturday #ancient art

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For #MosaicMonday: tiger-lion fusions & mythical huma birds on the spandrels of two 17th c. madrasas in Uzbekistan:

Sher-Dor Madrasa, Registan, Samarkand, 1619-36
Nadir Divan Begui Madrasa, Liab-i-Hawz, Bukhara, 1622-3

#Islamic art #Islamic architecture #Central Asian art #Central Asian architecture #Uzbekistan #mosaic #17th century #hybrid #lion #tiger #bird #huma #mythical creatures #Mosaic Monday #animals in art