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Z35.3 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 crab- or lobster-claw "horns", and his wife Tethys as a matronly woman with a winged brow. A draconic sea-serpent is coiled around their shoulders.

ARTICLES

Oceanus, Tethys

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Poseidon

Z2.2 Poseidon