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Reference # 54 is mangled. It looks like there is a malformed {{Refn}} in the "Mesopotamia" section.

I think that the text:

{{Refn|Frankfort classed it as a "winged, tailed, and taloned dragon which spat fire".</ref>

should be:

{{Refn|Frankfort classed it as a "winged, tailed, and taloned dragon which spat fire".}}

There may be something more complicated going on that I can't see. Thanks 76.14.122.5 (talk) 22:04, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think I fixed the problem. There was also an issue with the Goldman (1960) citation; there probably should've been ref tags around it, since the inline use of Template:harvp was deprecated. The original editor probably intended to have a footnote about Frankfort's classification, with a citation to Frankfort (1936-1937) inside the footnote, but got the brackets and the ref tags from the previous Goldman citation mixed up. Liu1126 (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That looks right. Much better than my suggestion! Thanks 76.14.122.5 (talk) 23:05, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of other examples of the gryphon in modern art

The gryphon is depicted by twentieth-century French artist, writer, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau in his 1957 lithograph “Le griffon” as an eagle-headed, winged, male dancer with a human rather than a lion’s body as if for a costume design for the ballet, although the exact reference remains unclear. ^[1] Gascogne2127 (talk) 04:50, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jean-cocteau-le-griffon

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