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The Nile God Hapy

Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), acc. 54.2135. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 54.2135
Dynasty: 25th-26th Dynasty
Date: ca. 747-525 BCE (Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, 25th-26th dynasty)
Date range: 747 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['copper alloy']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), The Nile God Hapy (54.2135). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220301

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Description

<p>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 crown of papyrus buds and blossoms, a collar, a divine beard, armlets and a narrow girdle with three ends in front, the characteristic costume of this god. The offering table has two water jars and two lotus plants, with more lotuses hanging from Hapy's left arm. A royal cartouche crowned with plumes and a sun-disk is in front of the legs of the god, but it is empty and does not contain the name of a king.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2135' rel='external'>The Nile God Hapy</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Hapi

Materials Copper Alloy

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 54.2135 tier-2
Walters-id 26826 tier-2

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