mushhushshu

In Mesopotamian mythology, a hybrid creature with the claws of a lion, the talons of an eagle, a snake-like head with two vertical horns, and a long tail ending in a scorpion’s stinger. The mushhushshu was associated with the god Marduk.

Mushhushshu from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon.  Molded and glazed brick. Ca. 569 BCE. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.