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This
2000-year-old bust depicts Neilos,the Nile river god. Neilos appealed to
Egyptians and Greeks alike – he was t
he
Greek version of Hapy, the Egyptian personification of the annual Nile flood
that brought prosperity and fertility to the country. Neilos played a
meaningful role in one of the most approved festivals in Egypt, and when the
beginning of the
annual flood marked the Egyptian New Year.
This
bust was once
mounted into a large decorative shield and adorned a temple in
the ancient Egyptian city of Canopus. It was discovered by underwater
archaeo
logists at the base of the wall on which
it once hung.
See more i
ncredible objects that
maintain been preserve
d and buried under the sea for over a thousand years in the BP exhibition Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds (19 May – 27 November 2016).
Bust of Neilos. Canopus,AD 100–200. Maritime Museum, Alexandria. Photo: Christoph
Gerigk. © F
ranck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.

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