'Gryphon asleep' for Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland (1865) by John Tenniel references cone of Astarte in Horned Enclosure, Temple Court, Byblos, on Coin of Macrinus?




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a) 'Gryphon asleep' for Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland (1865) by John Tenniel

 

 

 
 
 
 
b)  References cone of Astarte in Horned Enclosure, Temple Court, Byblos, on Coin of Macrinus?

 
 
 
 
 
c) The two faces of an example of the actual coin
 

 
 

d) The illustration of the coin face above the sleeping griffin

 


 
 
e) The right building becomes the hind of the Gryphon
 
 


 

 

f) The decoration along the rim around the coin becomes rhe trail



 

f) The left hunt becomes the griffon's ead


 
 

g) So here the room becomes the ears with the adornment on top becoming the tip of the ear on the right


 
 
 
 
g) The left stairway becomes the claws


 

 

h) The enclosure surrounding the horn becomes a wing


 

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