Griffin from Redován

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The Redován griffin in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid
Grifo ibero de Redován (MAN Inv.38437) 02.jpg

The griffin from Redován ( Spanish Grifo de Redován ) is an Iberian sculpture made of  limestone , which was found in 1893 in the Spanish municipality of Redován in the town of El Mulagar, in the province of Alicante , during excavations by Valeriano Aracil .

The sculpture is a stone head of a gargoyle in the form of a mythological being, half of an eagle with bulging eyes, open beak, large eyebrows that simulate a protohelenic, Cypriot or Phoenician palmette and are flanked by two goat horns.

The sculpture was exhibited in the Louvre Museum until it returned to Spain in 1941. It is currently housed in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España in Madrid . Some experts believe that it is the same sculptor who made the Dama de Elche .

literature

  • Antonio García y Bellido: Iberian Art in Spain . Kupferberg, Mainz 1971, ISBN 3-7837-0015-9 , p. 48.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Llobregat Conesa:  Contestanía Ibérica . Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos, Alicante 1972, p. 229.
  2. ↑ Grifo ibero de Redován (MAN inventory 38437)