Triton

Triton was a fish-tailed sea-god, the son and herald of Poseidon, who stilled the waves with his conch-shell.

Residence: The Sea
Symbols: Conch-shell
Parents: Poseidon and Amphitrite
Siblings: Rhodus

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Greek gold armband with Triton holding a putto, 200 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art. (c) PHGCOM
Detail of a Paestan red-figure krater, c. 340 BC, depicting Triton holding a conch shell. Getty Museum. (c) theoi.com
Greek Tritoness bronze applique, 2nd c. BC. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Roman mosaic of Triton and a hippocamp, 2nd-3rd c. AD, from Antioch. Hatay Archaeology Museum. (c) theoi.com

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