A Wikipedia article on the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, a Late Republican marble monument whose surviving panels are divided between the Louvre and the Glyptothek in Munich. The article describes the Munich mythological frieze, inventory 239, as showing the marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite in a Hellenistic style, the divine couple in a chariot drawn by Tritons and accompanied by Nereids, Doris on a sea-horse bearing wedding torches, Erotes and sea creatures, dated to about 122 to 115 BCE.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the relief's museum, inventory number and iconography, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record photographed at the Glyptothek naming the same inventory number. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_of_Domitius_Ahenobarbus
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Neptune directly: "239, as showing the marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite in a Hellenistic style, the divine couple in a chariot drawn by Tritons and accompanied by Nereids, Doris on a sea-horse bearing wedding..."
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