Herculaneum
Triton, a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the big sea; he is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea and is represented as a “merman”, with the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. He is depicted, surrounded by sea creatures, on the mosaic floor in the Terme del Foro, the central public bath in the old Roman town of Herculaneum.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Oct 25, 1994