The English football club Newcastle United has two hippocampi depicted on its crest. The sea-horse is also a common image in Renaissance and Baroque art, for example, in the Trevi fountain, dating to 1732.Ī winged hippocampus has been used as a symbol for Air France since its establishment in 1933 (inherited from its predecessor Air Orient) it appears today on the engine nacelles of Air France sea craftīronze hippocampi appear in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on lampposts next to a statue of Henry Grattan and on Grattan Bridge. Tritons and winged hippocampi in the Trevi Fountain, Rome Sea-horses may be depicted with wings, and winged sea-horses with a horn were part of the armorial bearings granted to Sir Sean Connery in 2018 by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Scotland's heraldic authority. Its mane may be that of a horse or it may be replaced with an additional fin. In appearance, the heraldic sea-horse is depicted as having the head and neck of a horse, the tail of a fish and webbed paws replacing its front hooves. The above-mentioned fish hybrids are seen less frequently. However, in a blazon, the terms hippocamp and hippocampus now refer to the real animal called a seahorse, and the terms seahorse and sea-horse refer to the mythological creature. The mythic hippocampus has been used as a heraldic charge, particularly since the Renaissance, most often in the armorial bearings of people and places with maritime associations. The "sea-horse" in medieval heraldry was a legendary creature that was part horse and part fish, not to be confused with the later heraldic hippocampus, which was a natural seahorse. Although similar but not identical to Roman sea-horse images, it is unclear whether this depiction originates from images brought over by the Romans, or had a place in earlier Pictish mythology. The symbolism of the carving (also known as " Pictish Beast" or " Kelpie") is unknown. The sea-horse also appears in Pictish stone carvings in Scotland. Katharine Shepard found in the theme an Etruscan belief in a sea-voyage to the other world. Hippocampi appear with the first Oriental-phase of Etruscan civilization: they remain a theme in Etruscan tomb wall-paintings and reliefs, where they are sometimes provided with wings, as they are in the Trevi fountain. On the middle of the base on which the car has been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the nymphs called Nereids. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes Atticus, four horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. Poseidon's horses, which were included in the elaborate sculptural program of gilt-bronze and ivory, added by a Roman client to the temple of Poseidon at Corinth, are likely to have been hippocampi the Romanised Greek Pausanias described the rich ensemble in the later 2nd century AD ( Geography of Greece ii.1.7-.8):
Likewise, the hippocampus was considered an appropriate decoration for mosaics in Roman thermae or public baths, as at Aquae Sulis modern day Bath in Britannia. When an earthquake suddenly submerged the city, the temple's bronze Poseidon accompanied by hippocampi continued to snag fishermens' nets. Thus, it was natural for a temple at Helike in the coastal plain of Achaea to be dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios, (the Poseidon of Helicon), the sacred spring of Boeotian Helikon. The Greek picture of the natural hydrological cycle did not take into account the condensation of atmospheric water as rain to replenish the water table, but imagined the waters of the sea oozing back landwards through vast caverns and aquifers, rising replenished and freshened in springs. The appearance of hippocampi in both freshwater and saltwater is counter-intuitive to a modern audience, though not to an ancient one. Hippocampus in Roman mosaic in the thermae at Aquae Sulis ( Bath)
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