Lamassu
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Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu is an Assyrian protective deity.
Lamma, protective winged deity, Sumerian Isin-Larsa period (2000–1800 BC)
Lamassu, Neo-Assyrian Empire, c. 721–705 BC
Lamassu at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
Statuette of the goddess Lama, probably made in a workshop on the outskirts of Mesopotamia. Isin-Larsa period (2000-1800 BC). Royal Museums of Art and History - Brussels
Hybrid beasts in folklore
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Hybrid beasts are creatures composed of parts from different animals, including humans, appearing in the folklore of a variety of cultures as legendary creatures.
Assyrian shedu from the entrance to the throne room of the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (late 8th century BC), excavated by Paul-Émile Botta, 1843–1844, now at the Department of Oriental antiquities, Richelieu wing of the Louvre.
The falcon-headed Horus and crane-headed Seth.
Zeus darting his lightning at Typhon, shown as a hybrid with a human torso, bird's wings and a reptilian lower body (Chalcidian black-figured hydria, c. c. 550 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen Inv. 596).
Street festivities in Hyderabad, India, during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.