Cetus
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The sea monster was a very familiar figure in Roman iconography known as a cetus. One finds him repeatedly in Roman iconography and Christians used it despite its narrow throat to depict the monster who swallows Jonah. A cetus and Neptune in the floor mosaic of the Sala Rotonda, 2nd century AD.
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