Sixteenth century cameo in eighteenth century ring
Description
Ca 1580-1600 agate cameo of a merman / male equivalent of a mermaid /
The eighteenth century gold and silver ring is with two small diamonds in silver setting positioned on either side of the cameo.Perhaps the first recorded merman was the early Babylonian sea-god Ea, whose Sumerian Enki, and was known to the Greeks as Oannes. Oannes had a fish head and man’s head beneath, and both a fish tail and man like legs, according to Berossus.[a][1] The fish god Dagon of the Philistines, with a fish-tailed body, may derive its origins from these earlier Mesopotamian gods.[2]
Greco-Roman mythology[edit]
Further information: Triton (mythology)
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