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Z34.1 TRITON & HIPPOCAMP

Triton & Hippocamp | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Hatay Archaeology Museum, Antakya
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Antioch, House of the Triumph of Dionysos
Date C2nd - 3rd A.D.
Period Imperial Roman

DESCRIPTION

A bearded sea-god, probably Triton, guides a winged Hippocamp (fish-tailed horse) on a rein. The marine deity is depicted as a merman with a pair of serpentine fish-tails and set of crab-claw "horns".

ARTICLES

Triton, Tritons, Hippocamps

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Nereid & Hippocamp

Z33.3 Nereid