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ID: 901001821
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001821
Record Type: Character/Person

Aquilon (Roman deity)

Note: Roman god of the north wind.

Names:
Aquilon (Roman deity) (preferred,English-P)
Aquilo (Roman deity) (English)
Aquilone (dio romano) (Italian-P)
Septentrio (Roman deity) (English)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Roman iconography> (P)
........<Roman characters> (P)
............Aquilon (Roman deity) (I)
Related Iconography:
counterpart is .... Boreas
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Anemoi (Greek deities), Boreas (Greek deity)) [901001826]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
is personification of .... north wind
.....(wind (weather phenomena), weather and related phenomena, earth sciences concepts, physical sciences concepts, scientific concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Aquilon (Roman deity)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
Aquilo (Roman deity)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
................ICCD database (1988-)
Aquilone (dio romano)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
Septentrio (Roman deity)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 92E5168 (story of) Boreas (Aquilo)
................ Grant and Hazel, Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1993)

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