God with staff

The statue of the god of the Nile is an ancient Roman marble statue dating from the 2-3rd centuries AD.
The sculpture depicts the Nile god resting on a sphinx, holding a cornucopia in his hand. The statue was probably erected by Alexandrian merchants in the then Roman port city. The statue was discovered in 1476, headless, and nicknamed the "Corpo di Napoli". The statue was put on a pedestal in 1657 and a bearded head was carved on it in the same century. In recent decades, the statue was again decapitated by robbers and later found.
Our statue is an alternative version of the original in the Vatican Museums.