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Triton blowing a conch; he is encircled by an Ouroboros, which is held by two other sea-creatures of mixed human and animal shape, with sea-snakes coiled around their tails

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23A21 serpent Ouroboros
25F42(+1) snakes (+ animals used symbolically)
25F42(+5274) snakes (+ animal(s) floating in water)
25F72(+36) molluscs (+ shell, snail-shell etc.)
25H23 sea (seascape)
31A2774 floating (movement in water)
31A4527(+23) monsters ~ swimming mammals (+ tail)
31A4527(+3) monsters ~ swimming mammals (+ legs, wings, etc.)
48C7525 one person playing wind instrument
92H331 Triton blows on a twisted sea shell to raise or calm the waves