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2nd century Roman  female Nemesis Griffin with Wheel of Fate

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This griffin has the body, tail, and back legs of a lion and the head, wings, and talons of an eagle. Resting on the wheel of fate, it symbolized the goddess Nemesis, who punished people whose good luck led them into overconfidence. In Roman Egypt, the griffin with a wheel could guard tombs, but the scale and material of this statuette suggest that it was probably a gift to the goddess to ensure the donor against good luck turning bad.
The imagery on the Wheel of Fortune card can be traced back to Nemesis and a few other Classical sources.

According to Tarot historians, the wheel is attributed to Fortuna, a Roman goddess who combines the traits of Nemesis, Tyche, and Necessity.

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International Supermarket London, International Food Stores, High Street, London

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International Supermarket London, International Food Stores, 7-11 High Street, London

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International Supermarket London, International Food Stores, 7-11 High Street, London

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Our local 'Griffins' are even featured on Pokemon Go! You can spin a 'pokestop' to collect treasure in this game played via a phone app. Evidence that even though the statues are Welsh dragons, people affectionately know them as Griffins, and in case using the alternative spelling Griffons.

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Budapest, Farkasréti Cemetery, Németvölgyi Way, Hungary

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Bankovsky, Bankovskiy Pereulok, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Bankovsky, Bankovskiy Pereulok, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Bankovsky, Bankovskiy Pereulok, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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These St. Petersburg lions have wings and some people calls them griffins despite that not really being correct. They have shiny heads as you can see in the photo because people believe that if you pat them on the head they will make your wishes come true. Try to imagine how many people come to polish the griffins’ head everyday!

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Canisius College, Main Street, Buffalo, NY, USA

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A 1,500-pound 'Golden Griffin' bronze statue by artist Mark Palmerton.

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Canisius College, Main Street, Buffalo, NY, USA

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Canisius College, Main Street, Buffalo, NY, USA

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Pakistan Airforce Squadron
No. 9 Squadron PAF
No. 9 Squadron, named the Griffins, is a Pakistan Air Force fighter squadron assigned to the No. 38 Multi-Role Wing of the PAF Central Air Command. The squadron is stationed at PAF Base Mushaf, Sargodha. It was the PAF's first fighter squadron and has been commanded by seven Chiefs of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force. The squadron crest is a red griffin which symbolises strength, aggressiveness, and vigilance. Scrolls around the squadron crest display the battle honours Sargodha 65 and Karachi 71.The Griffins are considered as the PAF's most elite unit as well as its most senior.

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A bronze gryphon sculpture to mark 50th year anniversary of the University of Guelph.

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The Trust was pleased to be able fund the restoration and return of the Griffins in the early 2000s, and they were finally reinstated to the Park on 7 April 2005.

Although referred to as griffins, winged lions, such as the ones seen in Centennial Parklands, are not true griffins, but are a hybrid known as ‘gryphonic’. True griffins have the face, beak, talons and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.

In symbolism, the griffin combines the symbolic qualities of both the lion and the eagle. It is the king of birds and lord of the air united with the king of beasts and lord of the earth.

The eagle parts of the griffin represented the saints with their thoughts, aspirations and souls lifted towards God. Its lion half stood for their courage in the arena and in the continuing struggle against sin, evil, and the Devil. Because of the griffin’s strength and powers of sight, it was believed to guard hidden treasures.

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From a coat of arms, Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy. I recently found out that Gryphons are always female... I never knew that!

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columnar sarcophagus with miracle scenes and gryphons, marble, late 4th c., Leiden

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Plate decorated with griffin, lusterware. Fatimid period, 11th century

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Description | A Griffon from the royal palace at shabwa, the capital city of the kingdom of en:Hadhramaut in Yemen. National Museum, Aden NAM 1218, about AD 250.
Desert Rose tree decoration?

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The circumstances of their emergence is not completely clear; they are sometimes described as being a Celto-Thracian group resulting from the Celtic migrations to the area in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, but alternatively surmised to be perhaps even strictly Thracian in origin.

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This exceptionally rare medieval textile is stylistically close to silks from the palls of 13th-century tombs excavated from the royal necropolis at Las Huelgas in Burgos. The extensive use of metallic threads creates a reflective quality and gives texture to the animated griffins. At the upper end, a band of repeating palmettes acts as a bridge to a partly lost pseudo-Kufic inscription. The piece is said to have been purchased from a Tibetan monastery, suggesting that it may have been sent eastward as a gift soon after its manufacture.

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The ivory tusks that provided the raw material for these objects were almost certainly from African elephants, imported from lands south of Egypt, although elephants did inhabit several river valleys in Syria until they were hunted to extinction by the end of the eighth century B.C.

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"Griffin's Claw" of St. Cuthbert - Durham

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In the year 1095 CE the First Crusade began. During these travels European crusaders collected curiosities from the strange lands they were visiting. Among such curiosities were griffin claws and eggs, sold to them by Middle-Eastern traders. These artifacts lead Medieval Europeans to believe that griffins were real flesh-and-blood creatures, and not just creatures of pagan imagination. Such artifacts were highly valued, and believed to have magical powers.[14] One such belief was that drinking from a drinking horn made from a griffin's claw could cure poison.[14]

These curiosities were all forgeries though, with altered ibex horns being sold a griffin claws, which lead to European myths of griffins being exceptionally large in size, and ostrich (or sometimes even fossilized dinosaur) eggs being sold as griffin eggs.[14] Nevertheless, these forgeries were brought back to Europe where they were put on display. One such example is the griffin claw that was brought back from the Holy Land by King Henry the Lion of Saxony (1129 or 1131-1195) which was then placed in the Brunswick Cathedral in Germany until 1906 CE.[15]

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Edward III reigned from 1322 until 1377. The beast most closely associated with him is the griffin as it was engraved on his private seal. It represented the qualities of guardianship and vigilance – so a polite statement that Edward III was in charge and caring for his country

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The main body consists of thirty-eight chapters, of which thirty-five are on animals and the other three are on precious stones. Although the translation is not regarded as a great literary work, it is the earliest surviving translation of the Physiologus into French and is a critical reference for Anglo-Norman French.[4][c] The Bestiaire is one of two works from medieval England that relates the story that a crocodile cries when it eats a human. This story is the basis for the phrase "crocodile tears".[18][d] Philip's work is also one of only two by French writers to give a physical description of the legendary creature the phoenix.[19][e] Philip also ascribed to the lion the ability to draw a circle in the ground with its tail. This circle would keep any prey from leaving the lion's circle.[20]

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South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine

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South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine

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South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine

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Griffins and lions attacking horses, symbolizing the brutal, evil menaces Scythian people faced during the 4th century BC. Scenes on a golden pectoral necklace from Tovsta Mohyla, South Ukraine.

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Symbol of the City A Very Noble looking Griffin

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Spain - 1000 to 1200, corresponds to a pivotal era in the history of the Spanish Middle Ages—one that saw significant shifts in the balance of power between Christian and Muslim rulers, destabilizing long-standing social relationships and introducing new tensions among religious communities.
Yet the visual arts make it clear that this was not a purely divisive age. In exploring how artists and patrons of the day drew from many sources of inspiration, negotiating the visual traditions of different religions,

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Representations of the griffin with a wheel unaccompanied by Nemesis, as in the Getty mosaic, are particularly common in North Africa and the eastern periphery of the Roman Empire. The motif appears in the second and third centuries AD in Egyptian statuettes in faience
Faience Egyptian statuette. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund / Brooklyn Museum
and bronze

; relief stelai from the amphitheater at Leptis Magna in present-day Libya; tomb paintings in Jordan; a votive marble statue from Erez, Israel, bearing a dedicatory inscription in Greek (dated AD 210–211); gems from Caesarea Maritima in Israel and Gadara in Jordan; and terracotta tesserae from Palmyra.10 While the worship of Nemesis was widespread across the Roman Empire, it was particularly prevalent in Egypt, where she had a pre-Roman cult, and in Syria and the surrounding regions, where she was associated with several important local deities, including the classical goddesses Tyche (personification of fortune) and Nike (personification of victory) and the Arabic deities Allath (goddess of war) and Manawat (goddess of fate).11

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The Roman goddess of fate and revenge, Nemesis, was the personification of godly punishment of those guilty of pride. She was first portrayed as a female figure beside the wheel of fate and a griffin, a horned, winged creature with a beak and the body of a lion. Over time, however, she lost her anthropomorphic character and these two images came to represent the goddess in and of themselves. During the Roman Period, Nemesis rose in popularity - particularly among soldiers, who brought her cult to the Land. The base of the sculpture bears a Greek inscription that reads, “Year 522. I, Mercurios, son of Alexander, dedicate [this statue] during my priesthood.”

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Portuguese sailors sailed as far as Japan.  Griffin imagery must have been on the boats. 

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This rare rendition of the first Portuguese sailor to reach Japan displays his native costume and curly hair, along with an equally exotic creature: a griffin. Pinto was supposedly shipwrecked off the south coast of Kyushu, on a small island known as Tanega. The back of the figure bears an inscription that translates as: “I came to Japan in Tenbun eighth year (1539), seventh day of the eighth month,” although the more widely accepted date of his arrival is 1543.

A variety of materials were used in the making of netsuke, reflecting the creativity and superb skill of the artisans. Ivory and wood were most often used due to their fine grain and smooth surface, an important consideration due to the constant handling of the small toggles by their owners. Ivory could easily be toned or painted to brighten up the figure and was sometimes used in tandem with other materials such as wood, bone, or metal. Significant attention was also given to the symbolic aspect of the material. An example is the rare and precious ivory from the tusk of the narwhal which was believed to possess mystical medicinal powers.

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Made by the Indo-Russia nomads

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another  ancient trading city

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A limestone male (right) and female (left) griffin guard the outside entrance of the building. The griffins each hold an agate egg between their paws, symbolic of the protection of their home. Like the building they were designed in the Neoclassical style. The sculptures were carved by Ugo Lavaggi

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1999 Griffin in city square to represent the towns coat of arms

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The coat of arms of Iceland displays a silver-edged, red cross on blue shield, alluding to the design of the flag of Iceland. It is the only national arms to feature four supporters: the four protectors of Iceland (landvættir) as described in Heimskringla, standing on a block of columnar basalt.[1] The bull (Griðungur) is the protector of northwestern Iceland, the eagle or griffin (Gammur) protects northeastern Iceland, the dragon (Dreki) protects the southeastern part, and the rock-giant (Bergrisi) is the protector of southwestern Iceland. Great respect was given to these creatures of Iceland, so much that there was a law during the time of the Vikings that no ship should bear grimacing symbols (most often dragonheads on the bow of the ship) when approaching Iceland. This was so the protectors would not be provoked unnecessarily.[2]

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Griffin has been introduced in some historical periods of Iran as a bird of Homa, which had a sublime place in Iranian literature and beliefs, and considered it a symbol of happiness and prosperity, and it seemed that its shadow fell on anyone, making him happy; In the Sassanid era, its role in textiles and containers has been the concept of the goodness of life for its holder. In some of the early designs, Griffin is depicted alongside the tree of life, which can be taught as a guard to protect against the devilish forces, and during the Achaemenid period, this creature symbolizes Iranian wisdom.

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Bronze cauldrons set on tripods or conical stands were among the most spectacular votive gifts dedicated in Greek sanctuaries from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. Cast-bronze griffins' heads often decorated the cauldron rims. Some of the dedicated cauldrons were colossal. The Greek historian Herodotus describes one made for King Kroisos of Lydia that could hold 2,700 gallons and another dedicated on the island of Samos that was supported by huge kneeling figures. Over six hundred bronze griffins' heads from cauldrons are known today; most have been found at the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia or at that of Hera on Samos. This enormous head is one of the finest.

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Drinking Griffins 10th Century from a church

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The mythical griffin, a creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, often appeared in Christian contexts. The representation of two confronted griffins is derived from ancient Near Eastern art, and the composition of this relief was probably based on imported textile designs

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The Pomeranian Griffin secret military organization (Polish: Tajna Organizacja Wojskowa Gryf Pomorski) was a Polish anti-Nazi resistance group active in Pomerania and East Prussia during World War II. A major Polish resistance organization in the Pomerania region, at its height in 1943 it might have had as many as 20,000 members, although only about 500 were active partisans in the forests (leśni).[1][2]

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Saddles used by the ancient Altaic nomads differ from those used today. They had no wooden base and consisted of two leather cushions filled with reindeer and horse hair and sewn together on one side Animal fights were the main motif of ancient Altaians’ art typical of the whole Scythian world. It is quite probable that the early Altaic nomads, as well as many Indo-Iranian peoples, perceived the subject of fight as that of light and warmth against cold and darkness and associated it with the arrival of spring. the edge of the cover are trimmed with horse-hair dyed red and decorated with stylized heads of mouflons and horned tigers.

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"Altay Mountains" Magazine, Komsomol'skaya Ulitsa, Gorno-Altaysk, Altai Republic, Russia

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Griffin decorated horse saddles from a nomadic people linked to Iran Ukraine and Russia.

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"Altay Mountains" Magazine, Komsomol'skaya Ulitsa, Gorno-Altaysk, Altai Republic, Russia

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"Altay Mountains" Magazine, Komsomol'skaya Ulitsa, Gorno-Altaysk, Altai Republic, Russia

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Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians,[8][9] were an ancient Eastern[10] Iranian[11] equestrian nomadic people led by a warrior aristocracy known as the Royal Scythians who primarily lived in the region corresponding to modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, which was known as Scythia or Scythica after them, and who dominated the territory of the Pontic steppe from approximately the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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The shield of this tile is emblazoned with a crisply outlined griffin. The flanking French inscription reads: "We must think." Indeed!

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4th Century Sicyon an early Grecian city. Pebble mosaic

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Another Roman House of Griffins. Not able to down load images 15th century
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Griffin - Wall Painting of the Domus ” House of Griffins ” Complutum in ALCALA DE HENARES . Madrid. SPAIN Stock Photo - Alamy

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House of the Griffins
A steep staircase, part of which is ancient, leads from the back of the so-called Lararium to the underground floor of a house dating to the 2nd-1st century BC. Though partly destroyed by the foundations of the palace above, it gives some idea of the type of aristocratic residence which stood on the Palatine in the Republican period. The house had two storeys: on the ground floor a few remains of the atrium with its pool in peperino and coloured mosaics survive; the underground level is preserved almost intact and its rooms are adorned with frescoes, mosaics and stucco decorations. One of these, depicting two griffins, gives the building its name.

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Most of the Romanesque mural painting that has survived has a religious subject matter, but we also find decoration of a courtly or profane nature in large monastic centres, such as San Pedro de Arlanza in Castile. This fragment comes from a palatine room in the so-called Torre del Tesoro, above the chapter house, where there were zoomorphic representations inspired in the bestiary. Here we see a gryphon, a fabled creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, in a vigilant pose. The style of the paintings in Arlanza is related to other Spanish works of 1200 art clearly influenced by the English miniature, something that can be seen in the refinement and the precision of the motifs, combined with their monumental nature.

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Martin Schongauer, also known as Martin Schön or Hübsch Martin by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer, a younger artist who collected his work.

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This magnificent aquamanile in the form of a griffin with (separately cast) outstretched wings can be grouped stylistically with the unicorn (64.101.1493) and a few other examples that were probably produced by the same Nuremberg workshop in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The aquamanile was filled through a hole between the ears, and water was poured from the spigot in the chest, likely a rare surviving original element.

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Apollos chariot was pulled by Griffins to raise and set the sun.

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This piece was found in a large storeroom at Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was probably used to store tribute and booty collected by the Assyrian army

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The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India, and an important monument of Indian Architecture.[1] It was originally commissioned by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE.

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Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and is considered Europe's oldest city; The throne is flanked by the Griffin Fresco, with two griffins couchant (lying down) facing the throne, one on either side;

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These were made during the time of the silk route. Traders selling wares and exchanging of stories.

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Medieval manuscript Book of Durrow Ireland

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The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript dated to c. 700 that consists of text from the four Gospels gospel books, written in an Irish adaption of Vulgate Latin, and illustrated in the Insular script style.[1]

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Gorgeous painted ceramic Griffin ancient   

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Winged griffin in painted stucco. From Astana 7th-8th century

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International Supermarket London, International Food Stores, High Street, London

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The initial inspiration for creating the Walthamstow Griffin project. A series of girffins can be in the architecture at the St James Street end of Walthamstow High Street. Strictly speaking though, these are actually Welsh dragons but locally they are affectionately referred to as griffins!

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Griffin n9 pilots