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Historical Archive: Gryphons, Griffins bone gryphon head with ram's horns fr. Teishebaini Fortress, near Yerevan, 7th c. BCE, Hermitage 17774 bone gryphon head, profile wood griffin fr. Tuekta barrow 1, Pazyryk culture 6th-5th c. BCE, Hermitage gryphon, ceramic/gilt, Tarantine 350-325 BCE, SF 1990.10.2 Apollo riding gryphon, bottom: Augustus of Prima Porta, marble, early 1st c. CE, Vat MV.2290.0.0, which has its own page cylinder seal, probably Sassanian (3rd-7th c.), crystal, Leiden A 1952/1.2 cylinder seal, probably Sassanian (3rd-7th c.), crystal, Leiden A 1952/1.2 cylinder seal, probably Sassanian (3rd-7th c.), crystal, Leiden A 1952/1.2 columnar sarcophagus with miracle scenes and gryphons, marble, late 4th c., Leiden Pb 35 columnar sarcophagus with miracle scenes and gryphons, marble, late 4th c., Leiden Pb 35 Daniel in the lions’ den (top), gilded bronze and niello belt pendant from Cem. St-Marcel, late 4th to early 5th c., Musée Carnavalet Paris AM 954 Daniel in the lions’ den, gilded bronze and niello belt pendant from Cem. St-Marcel, late 4th to early 5th c., Musée Carnavalet Paris AM 954 Merovingian gryphon fibula probably from Lens, Collection Guy Ladrière, Paris Merovingian gryphon fibula probably from Lens, Collection Guy Ladrière, Paris Harrach diptych back, ivory, 7th-8th c., Schn 1012, which has its own page gryphon belt mount, copper alloy tinned, late 7th-early 9th c. Avar, Morgan 2012.2:84 Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 750-800?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. ivory oliphant, Sicily/S. Italy c.1000-50, Hermitage Ф-5, which has its own page bronze griffin, Spain(?), 11thc., Opera Pisa. This work has its own page. Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page "Shroud of St. Potentien", silk, 12th c. Islamicate, Sens CT. This work has its own page. Sainte Chasse, 12th c. Byzantine ivory, Sens CT 143, which has its own page with more gryphons Gryphon from S. Bartolomeo al Carmine, Siena, limestone, 12th c., SPN 1.B.S.n.128 Alexander casket, Byzantine ivory, prob. 12th c., poss. 6th or 9th c., Darmstadt Kg 54:215a-d, which has its own page linen with silk embroidery (formerly a purse), 13th c., Sens CT gryphon gripping knight, copper alloy aquamanile fr. Strinda, c.1300-1350, Bergen MA 67. For oblique and detail views see Bergen. Dečani monastery church narthex, 1322-31, which has its own page with more griffins gryphon top center left: front of an oak chest with heraldic and fantastic beasts, Lower Saxony c.1380, KGM 1884,1688 griffin aquamanile, copper alloy, Nürnberg 15th c., KGM 90,429. For other views see Berlin. aquamanile in the form of a gryphon, copper alloy, Nürnberg c.1400, Louvre seal matrix for the Royal Hospital of St Katharine-by-the-Tower and the Royal seal for Ecclesiastical Causes, copper alloy, 1548, MoL A11011