Fragment with Personifications of Victory and the Nile 6th century Byzantine This is one of two fragments (see ) that may once have formed a single object celebrating the annual flooding of the Nile River. Holding a wreath, Nike (personification of victory) and the long-haired man Nilos (personification of the river) are surrounded by putti—small childlike figures that, in Egypt, symbolized the number of feet that the river rose each year, ushering in the season of growth and Fragment with Personifications of Victory and the Nile 465955

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