Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Pontus.
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Statue of Fortuna and Pontus (patron deities of Tomis)
Unknown (Roman, Pontic Greek workshop), 2nd century AD
This Roman-era marble group, now in the National History and Archaeology Museum of Constanța, Romania, shows the city-goddess Fortuna of ancient Tomis enthroned with a cornucopia, while the primordial sea-god Pontus stands much smaller at her feet. As the personification of the Black Sea on whose shore the Greek colony of Tomis was founded, Pontus appears here as the city's maritime patron paired with Fortuna's civic protection — a rare instance of the ancient Sea, child of Gaia and father of Nereus, Phorcys and Ceto, given his own sculpted form. It is the single image of Pontus carried on his Wikipedia article.
Pontus, from the Oceanus Mosaic of Acholla
Unknown (Roman mosaicist), 2nd century AD
A detail from a polychrome Roman floor mosaic excavated at Acholla in present-day Tunisia, now in the Bardo National Museum, in which the primordial sea-god Pontus is rendered as a bearded marine head rising from the deep, his hair and beard tangled with seaweed and crowned with crustacean claws in the manner the Romans used for Oceanus and the personified Sea. The mosaic belongs to a wider ocean program of marine deities and sea creatures; Pontus, the 'fruitless deep' born of Gaia alone in Hesiod's Theogony, is here named and visualized as the living face of the sea itself.