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Page 119
... tree grows up and over the camel's back and the tiger's head , appearing in that very position where previously could be found antlers , griffonated crests or strange antler / crest / tree combinations . This Siberian transformation of ...
... tree grows up and over the camel's back and the tiger's head , appearing in that very position where previously could be found antlers , griffonated crests or strange antler / crest / tree combinations . This Siberian transformation of ...
Page 125
... tree branches than of antlers . No less ambiguous is the curious spray of griffon heads around the neck and head of the wolf - like creature on two of the later plaques ( Pl . 18 ) . And in two of the tiger - camel plaques ( Pl . 19 ) ...
... tree branches than of antlers . No less ambiguous is the curious spray of griffon heads around the neck and head of the wolf - like creature on two of the later plaques ( Pl . 18 ) . And in two of the tiger - camel plaques ( Pl . 19 ) ...
Page 129
... tree of life or World Tree but rather echoes of a distinctly Hellenizing taste . Their reflection of Vedic or Avestan traditions is , if anything , obscure , although they may contain distant references to general Indo - Iranian ...
... tree of life or World Tree but rather echoes of a distinctly Hellenizing taste . Their reflection of Vedic or Avestan traditions is , if anything , obscure , although they may contain distant references to general Indo - Iranian ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi