Steatite pyxides from Armenia 8th-7th century BCE [d/b]

Steatite pyxis from Karmir Blur, 8th-7th century BCE
In the center of the composition is a sacred tree and creatures with a human body, a bird’s head and wings.

Steatite pyxis from Karmir Blur, 8th-7th century BCE
The first scene shows a warrior with a shield and dagger, a horseman with a pike and an archer hunting a deer that is eating the top of the Tree of Life. In the second, there is a lion with a bird on the tip of its tail, attacking a goat. On the lid there is a figurine of a lying lion, around it there are relief images of a bull and a deer.