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Egyptian Bull-headed deity
This limestone wall-relief block depicts a bull-headed god; the god has a human body and looks to the right side. He is standing between parts of two other partially shown figures. The background wall was left rough. From Egypt, precise provenance...

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Man-headed Bull, Gela
A silver coin depicting a man-headed bull from Gela, Sicily. 5th century BCE (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

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Hittite relief of a Winged Lion-Headed Demon at Yazilikaya
Entrance to Chamber B of the Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary near Hattusa (13th century BCE) with a relief of a winged, lion-headed demon.

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Saxon Square-Headed Bow Brooch
Saxon Square-Headed Bow Brooch, Anglo-Saxon, 6th century CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Merovingian Radiate-Headed Brooch
Gilt-silver radiate-headed brooch; semi-circular flanged head-plate, moulded with punched decoration; foot-plate expanding to rounded end with opposed profile bird head terminals; chip-carved geometric and linear decoration; runic characters...

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Raven-Headed Mahakala
Raven-Headed Mahakala; Bhutan; early to mid-19th century CE; pigments on cloth; 27 7/8 x 20 in. (70.8 x 50.8 cm); Rubin Museum of Art; C2006.42.8 (HAR 89189)

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Okapi-headed Leopard-Griffin, Byzantine Mosaic
The okapi-headed leopard-griffin, Byzantine Mosaic, Period: Early Byzantine, circa 6th. century CE. Place: Constantinople, (Modern Istanbul, Turkey). Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. The Great Palace Mosaic Museum was inaugurated...

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Bare-headed Apkallu with Four Wings
This fragmented alabaster bas-relief depicts an Assyrian Apkallu, a protective spirit or genie. The striking features are that he is bare-headed (he does not wear a horned helmet or diadem) and his four wings, all of them, appear en face...

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Nimrud Ivory Panel of a Falcon-headed God
Never seen by the public before 2011. A small fragment of an ivory plaque from Nimrud. There is figure of a falcon-headed Egyptian god. He is standing in a gesture of adoration in front of a tree. Phoenician art. Neo-Assyrian Period, 9th...

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Three-Headed Demon
Etruscan three-headed Demon from a pediment relief found in Orvieto (Italy). Dated to around 480 BCE.
Altes Museum, Berlin.