Tile Item Number: 3160/41 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Ceramic tile, square. On a light blue background, tile has an image in blue of Poseidon emerging from still water, with the head and torso of a man and the long curving tail of a fish. Figure faces to the left, and holds a spear in his hand. Long hair cascades down his chest to rest just above his rounded stomach. The corners of the tile are decorated with an ox-head motif. Top surface of tile is glazed and shiny with shallow cracks; sides and bottom are undecorated.