Limestone slab depicting Hapy (Hapi), ancient Egyptian god of the annual Nile flooding. Artist unkn
Limestone slab depicting Hapy (Hapi), ancient Egyptian god of the annual Nile flooding. Artist unknown; 12th Dynasty (1991-1802 BCE). Found at Koptos, where it had been reused in the foundations of the temple of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III; now in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London. Photo credit: Osama Shukhir Muhammed Amin/Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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