The Nile God Hapy

ca. 747-525 BCE (Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, 25th-26th dynasty)

10.3 cm 28.6 cm 0.6 cm

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This plaque originally functioned as a decorative element that may have covered the door or lower part of a wooden shrine. It displays an image of the Nile god Hapy with an offering table in his arms. Hapy represented the Nile River and its fertilizing inundation. Hapy wears a...

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E. Hindamian, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2068]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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