Z35.3 OCEANUS & TETHYS
Museum Collection | Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology, Gaziantep |
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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.