Griffin Pictures, Ancient

This is my favorite section. On the web the ancient griffin is always related through the scanty literary evidence. By contrast, the physical evidence is enormous. From an early period, Greece was in intimate contact with southern Ukraine and the Scythian world in general [1], and this region was a major exporter of both objects and iconography. Rather than through texts, it is likely that griffin information spread through the Greek (and later Roman) world primarily through objects and the stories they carried, directly or indirectly.

Ideally, these images would be split between "Scythia and Neighboring Regions" and "Greek and Roman," with some of earler Near Eastern material also sequestered. This split ultimately proved impossible owing to the many edge cases—Greek Bosporan art, for example—and the lack of adequate labeling on many web images.

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Scythian Bronze Plaque (4c. BC) 182 x 400 hermitagemuseum .org Two Griffins' Heads, Pazyryk Culture, Russia (4c. BC) 279 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org Griffin Fighting a Beast of Prey, Scythian (late 4c. BC) 322 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org Plaque: Head of a Griffin, Pazyryk Culture (6c. BC) 356 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org Aigrette: Griffin Tearing with Claws an Ibex, Eastern Iran? (5-4c. BC) "We see that the whole composition, particularly the griffin, was produced under the influence of the Achaemenid art"  300 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org Head of a Griffin, Pazyryk Culture (5c. BC) 370 x 277 hermitagemuseum .org "Staff Head in the Form of Large Gryphon's Head with a Deer's Head in its Beak," Pazyryk Culture (5c. BC) 290 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org "Shaft-hole axe with a griffin-demon, boar, and winged dragon" (late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.), from "Western Central Asia" 500 x 421 metmuseum.org Griffon capital from Persepolis (Achaemenid Persian) 369 x 322 sumka.org Greek Griffon Earings (400-450 BC) 700 x 541 insecula.com Lamp (6c. BC), one image 700 x 513 insecula.com Russian (AD 1000-1200) 635 x 700 insecula.com Persian (c. 510 BC) 700 x 356 insecula.com Persian, from Susa (c. 510 BC) 700 x 527 insecula.com Eastern Altai Saddle Cover (5c. BC), Hermitage Museum 469 x 400 hermitagemuseum .org Griffin Pendant (8-10c.), Russian 329 x 300 hermitagemuseum .org Scythian culture (7c. BC) 246 x 370 hermitagemuseum .org Griffin plaque, Meotian Culture (4c. BC) 370 x 212 hermitagemuseum .org
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