Assyrian Relief Sculpture

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The griffin, a monster with a lion’s or panther’s body and the head and wings of an eagle, played an important part in the Assyrian system of religious symbolism.

Keywords

Assyria

Galleries

Near East

Source

A. D. F. Hamlin, A History of Ornament (New York: The Century Company, 1916) 63

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