Old European culture

A Kassite period (1595-1155 BC) seal depicting a "bird-demon" 🙂, holding two ibexes, by their hind legs.  Found in Iraq, UChicago...

Proto-Elamite seal, 3000 BC. A griffin, followed by ibex goat, or goitered gazelle... From " The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c.3500 -...

Luristan bronze disk pin, c. 1500 to 700 BC, showing a woman giving birth while holding her breasts, between 2 gazelles, and among flowers. ...

I am flicking through the great paper " Podobe zivljenja in mita " This is an Illyrian situla from Novo Mesto, Slovenia dated to 5...

Seated female figure (goddess? ) drinking out of a goblet - next to a tulip, bronze seal, late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC, (BMAC), Afghan...