Marine Centaur and Silenus, (1st-2nd century A.D. Roman). Musee du Louvre, Paris. marble
The elderly Silenus rides across the sea on an Ichthyocentaur (marine centaur). Silenus is depicted as a plump, balding man carried by the marine deity that has the upper body of a beardless youth, the lower foreparts of a horse, and the coiling tail of a serpentine fish.




















