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Z35.4 OCEANUS & TETHYS

Oceanus & Tethys | Greco-Roman mosaic
DETAILS
Museum Collection Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology, Gaziantep
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Zeugma
Date C1st - 2nd A.D.
Period Imperial Roman

DESCRIPTION

The busts of the elderly marine-gods Oceanus and Tethys rise from the sea. Oceanus is depicted as a grey-haired man with a pair of lobster-claw "horns" and an oar by his side. His wife Tethys has a winged brow and wears a draconic sea-serpent coiled about her shoulders.

ARTICLES

Oceanus, Tethys