Winged genie is the conventional term for a recurring motif in the iconography of Assyrian sculpture. Winged genies are usually bearded male figures sporting...
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Look up Genie, genie, or ginni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A genie, or jinn, is a supernatural creature in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later...
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Lamassu (redirect from Winged bull)
figures in the low-relief schemes running round palace rooms, where winged genie figures are common, but they sometimes appear within narrative reliefs...
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for the needs of commerce". God on the Winged Wheel coin "Archaeologists find ancient seal with rare winged 'genie' in Jerusalem near Western Wall". The...
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the inscription on a comb's body, as a winged solar panel. The period of the comb is about 3000 BC. Such winged solar panels were later found in the funeral...
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beings, called by such terms as "winged genie", but the major Assyrian deities are only represented by symbols. The "genies" often perform a gesture of purification...
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hippocampus, Talos, and Pegasus. The motif of the winged man appears in the Assyrian winged genie, and is taken up in the Biblical seraphim and Chayot...
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Cone refer to twin attributes that are frequently held in the hands of winged genies depicted in the art of Mesopotamia and within the context of Ancient...
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The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United...
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