Sources:
Ancient Artifact Obama Gave Iran is a Fake from 1999 By Daniel Greenfield – October 11, 2013
- New York writer specializing in radical Islam, Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center.
- http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/ancient-artifact-obama-gave-iran-is-a-fake-from-1999/
We Gave Iran an Antique as a Token of Goodwill. Only Problem? It’s Fake. By Alex Joffe – October 10, 2013
- Archaeologist and historian Alex Joffe is a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow of the Middle East Forum.
- http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/148365/griffin-rouhani-diplomacy
2,700-year-old Persian artifact a gift of U.S. diplomacy to Iran? By Tara Kangarlou and Ben Brumfield, CNN – September 28, 2013
The Veracity of “Scientific” Testing by Conservators By Oscar White Muscarella (2013)
- Oscar White Muscarella is an American archaeologist and former research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he worked for over 40 years before retiring in 2009. This chapter from his 2013 book Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East was posted by http://www.savingantiquities.org/ @ http://www.savingantiquities.org/wp-content/pdf/OCFMuscarella.pdf.
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It’s not a “griffin”, it’s a Buraq.
Yes, Barack gave Iran a Buraq.
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Funny … but Buraq is a winged horse. The story specifies four hooves. It is also usually shown with a humanoid head. This thing has an eagle’s head.
But acc’ding to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin, the forger didn’t get the griffin part right either.
“The griffin has a body, tail, and back legs of a LION; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle’s talons as its FRONT feet.”
Looks to me like the forger got the legs reversed. The art historian guy did say it was a BAD forgery! LOL
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