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Sea Thiasos Relief, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Glyptothek Munich 239)

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A Wikimedia Commons file record for the sea thiasos relief at the Glyptothek, Munich, inventory 239, independently confirming the museum, the inventory number, and the subject as a maritime procession for the wedding of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite, the divine couple shown in the bridal carriage drawn by two music-playing Tritons, dated to the second half of the 2nd century BCE. Photographed in the museum's Room 11 in 2007.

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Citation
Publisher
Wikimedia Commons
URL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_thiasos_Amphitrite_Poseidon_Glyptothek_Munich_239_front_n3.jpg
Source Type
reference-database
Assessment
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2
A museum-photographed file record on Wikimedia Commons carrying the relief's own inventory number, independently corroborated by the Wikipedia article on the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus naming the same museum and subject.
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Neptune, Deities

This source names Neptune directly: "for the wedding of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite, the divine couple shown in the bridal carriage drawn by two music-playing Tritons, dated to the second half of the 2nd century BCE."

Poseidon, Deities

This source names Poseidon directly: "maritime procession for the wedding of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite, the divine couple shown in the bridal carriage drawn by two music-playing Tritons, dated to the second half of the 2nd..."

Poseidon, Figures

This source names Poseidon directly: "maritime procession for the wedding of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite, the divine couple shown in the bridal carriage drawn by two music-playing Tritons, dated to the second half of the 2nd..."

Sources
Alternate Currents: Reiki's Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific
Justin B. Stein, University of Hawaii Press, 2023
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)

This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds.

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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