Semiology of the Gryphon Motif in Ancient Elamite Architecture

Maryam Zohouriyan; Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Kouhpar; Javad Neyestani; Alireza Hozhabri Nobari

doi:10.13173/centasiaj.62.2.0227

Semiology of the Gryphon Motif in Ancient Elamite Architecture

Maryam Zohouriyan, Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Kouhpar, Javad Neyestani, Alireza Hozhabri Nobari

Seiten 227 - 232

DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/centasiaj.62.2.0227

This article discusses the gryphon, shirdal in Persian, a legendary creature featuring in much of Asia's and Europe's mythology. The shirdal, just as the Greek γρύφων, is a hybrid and legendary beast composed of eagle, human, lion and bull. But was there a common mythical function for the gryphon? The article will answer this question by tracing more than five thousand years of history, with a focus on Elamite architecture unearthed in Susa.

古代埃蘭時期建築上獅鷲圖案的符號性

獅鷲獸，一種鷹、人、獅及牛之間的神話生物以及在古代希臘文明領域與波斯
文化的互相影響就是本文的主題。古希臘【格里芬】在同時期的波斯文化亦存
在，稱呼【獅爾達爾】。難道希臘與波斯兩種神物是否有同樣的來源以及傳說
意義，因而本文以埃蘭時期蘇撒都市建築及出土文物為本分析兩種文化圈的協
同。

بيرجند دانشگاه University of Birjand

انشگاه تربيت مدرس University of Tarbiat Modares (Tehran)

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