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Stories in Stone: Roman Mosaics From Tunisia at the Getty Villa

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Head of Oceanus (VEX.2006.3.12)
Head of Oceanus

Head of Oceanus

J. Paul Getty Museum
This Roman mosaic of the head of Oceanus was made c. A.D. 250 from limestone, and measures 223.5x188 centimeters.

Oceanus was the god of the ocean, the sea that was thought to surround the earth. Sometimes the god or Titan Oceanus is shown as a man on top with a serpent bottom. His wife was Tethys.

Stories in Stone is a collaboration between the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), and the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), Tunisia.

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