A massive Islamic metal griffin statue named for this city contained a bowl-like container in its back that may have allowed it to make growling noises. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where a replica of the griffin faces its Leaning Tower.
ANSWER: Pisa [accept the Leaning Tower of Pisa; accept the Pisa Griffin; reject “Peter Griffin”]
[10h] The Pisa Griffin’s chest is decorated with this oldest style of Arabic calligraphy, whose angular characters made it common in both abstract art and formal transliterations of the Qur’an.
ANSWER: Kufic [or Kufic script]
[10m] The Pisa Griffin has also been compared to animal-shaped fountainheads in the Islamic world, like those that make up this palace’s court of the lions. This palace exemplary of Moorish Nasrid architecture is in Granada.
ANSWER: Alhambra
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