The hippocamp or hippocampus (Greek: Ippokampoi, literally "horse monster"), often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by PhoenicianCoins minted at Tyre show the patron god Melqart riding on a winged hippocamp: see the fourth century BCE http://www.antiquities.org.il/hoards_eng.asp Yizre'el Valley silver hoard. and Greek mythology, though the name by which we recognize it is purely Greek; it became part of Etruscan mythology. It has typically been depicted as a horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fishlike hindquarter.

See Hippocampus.