For #MosaicMonday: tiger-lion fusions & mythical huma birds on the spandrels of two 17th c. madrasas in #Uzbekistan:
1. Sher-Dor Madrasa, Registan, Samarkand, 1619-36 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bujar%C3%A1,_Liab-i-Hauz_4.jpg
2. Nadir Divan Begui Madrasa, Liab-i-Hawz, Bukhara, 1622-3 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samarcanda,_Regist%C3%A1n_24.jpg
File:Samarcanda, Registán 24.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
File:Bujará, Liab-i-Hauz 4.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
mosaic on the spandrel of the Nadir Divan Begui Madrasa, Liab-i-Hawz, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1622-3, showing a pair of mythical huma birds flanking a human-faced sun
mosaic on the spandrel of the Sher-Dor Madrasa, Registan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1619-36, depicting a pair of felines that look like a fusion of a tiger and a lion (stripes, mane), each carrying a human-faced sun on its back and chasing a speckled white deer