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Marble statue of Scylla, a monstrous sea goddess who haunted the rocks of a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool daemon Charybdis (Kharybdis). Ships who sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting heads. The statue was found in the nymphaeum of the theatre at Ostia Antica (Italy)
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