Aquae Sulis
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Aquae Sulis was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is the English city of Bath, Somerset. The Antonine Itinerary register of Roman roads lists the town as Aquis Sulis. Ptolemy records the town as Aquae calidae in his 2nd-century work Geographia, where it is listed as one of the cities of the Belgae.
The Great Bath. Everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date.
Model of the Roman baths and temple complex
Hippocamp, the main figure in a section of mosaic floor from the Roman Baths
The Gorgon at Roman Baths Museum
Hippocampus (mythology)
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The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos, often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, Etruscan, Pictish, Roman and Greek mythology, though its name has a Greek origin. The hippocampus has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937)
Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) with lid, late 5th century BC
Triton and a winged hippocampus in the Trevi Fountain, Rome