Z35.7 OKEANOS or PONTOS

Museum Collection: Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia
Catalogue Number: TBA
Type: Mosaic
Context: Oceanus or Neptune Mosaic, Utica
Date: --
Period: Late Roman

SUMMARY

The head of Okeanos or Pontos, the sea personified, who is depicted with a beard of ocean waves, sea-weed hair and lobster-claw and feeler "horns." A pair of winged Erotes (love gods) ride beneath him on the backs of fish.

ARTICLESOkeanos, Pontos, Erotes

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