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
Hippocampus in Roman mosaic in the thermae at Aquae Sulis (Bath)
Triton and a winged hippocampus in the Trevi Fountain, Rome
Neptune is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto; the brothers preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world, and the seas. Salacia is his wife.
A velificans of Neptune in his seahorse-drawn triumphal chariot from the mid-3rd century AD - Sousse Archaeological Museum.
Centaur, Salacia and Neptune, antique fresco from Pompeii, Italy
Mosaic of Neptune (Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas, Palermo)
Roman mosaic on a wall in the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum, Italy
