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Z33.8 PALAEMON, LEUCOTHEA & TRITON

Palaemon, Leucothea & Triton | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Amerina
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Villa Romana del Casale
Date ca 320 A.D.
Period Late Roman

DESCRIPTION

The sea-goddess Leucothea sails across the sea on the back of the fish-tailed god Triton. She is accompanied by her son Palaemon riding a pair of dolphins. Triton is depicted as a merman with a coiling fish-tail in place of legs and the claws and legs of a crab sprouting from his head. He holds a shepherd's crock in his hand as the herdsman of fish. Leucothea holds a spade-shaped frond (seaweed?) in one hand and the wrist of her son in the other.

ARTICLES

Palaemon, Leucothea, Triton