Gold Temple Pendants, Bosporan Kingdom, 4th Century BC
Showing a Nereid riding a hippocampus. Found in Stone Crypt No. 1 of the Bliznitsa Barrow near the Vyshestebliyevskaya Cossack Village on the Taman Peninsula (map), Russia.
The Nereids were sea nymphs in Greek mythology, fifty in total, daughters of Nereus and Doris. They helped sailors on their voyages when they faced fierce storms. They lived with their father in the depths of the Aegean Sea.