<p>The god is being crawled over by  small naked bronze children. They symbolise the various stages in the Nile floods  The horn of plenty symbolises the highest extent of flooding, which creates great wealth for Egypt
Motifs on the sides of the bronze base describe life by the Nile, with plants, water and dykes, hippopotami, a crocodile, an ichneumon, horses and storks, fishing figures and grazing cattle.
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The bronze cast was made after a first century  Roman marble statue in the Musei Vaticani, Rome
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/36957368@N00">Jay Galvin</a> from Pleasanton, CA, USA
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