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Reclining Marble Oceanus sculpture from Ephesus God of the rivers
Museum: Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Period: Roman Imperial
Ocean (Ὠκεανός) was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans
and Greeks considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was
the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene οἰκουμένη). In
Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. In Hellenistic
and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a
long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab), and the lower torso of a serpent (cf.
Typhon). On a fragmentary archaic vessel of ca 580 BC, among the gods arriving at the wedding of
Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the
other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship.
This sculpture is identical reproduction of the original ancient masterpiece, now housed by the
prominent museum. The statue is composed from mold made from the original, thus guaranteeing the
highest accuracy of identical reproduction. The reproduction pictured here is made of cast marble, and
is extremely heavy and strong, having a real ancient feel. An ancient patina finishing gives it an
additional historical value (you can choose not to have patina applied and keep it all white if you like).
The statue can be displayed both inside and out, it is weatherproofed.
Item No. S061
Dimensions: 118 cm x 200 cm (46" x 78")
$11,990.00
Museum: Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Period: Roman Imperial
Ocean (Ὠκεανός) was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans
and Greeks considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was
the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene οἰκουμένη). In
Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. In Hellenistic
and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a
long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab), and the lower torso of a serpent (cf.
Typhon). On a fragmentary archaic vessel of ca 580 BC, among the gods arriving at the wedding of
Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the
other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship.
This sculpture is identical reproduction of the original ancient masterpiece, now housed by the
prominent museum. The statue is composed from mold made from the original, thus guaranteeing the
highest accuracy of identical reproduction. The reproduction pictured here is made of cast marble, and
is extremely heavy and strong, having a real ancient feel. An ancient patina finishing gives it an
additional historical value (you can choose not to have patina applied and keep it all white if you like).
The statue can be displayed both inside and out, it is weatherproofed.
Item No. S061
Dimensions: 118 cm x 200 cm (46" x 78")
$11,990.00
