Two-tailed siren, detail of St. Christopher fresco, the Church of St. Mary in Oprtalj, Croatia. About 1470.
She's a very small part of the entire fresco, which looks like this:
Photo from: BistroviΔ, Ε½eljko. Ε areni Trag Istarskih Fresaka / Pisana Sled Istrskih Fresk. 2015.
I've written about sirens in church frescos, and I need to do a longer post about two-tailed sirens, Faronika, and St Christopher. This is a very common motif in churches in smaller, mountain towns.

















