NILEN - Copenhague - 20 octobre 2008.

Déjà postées il y a plusieurs mois je crois. Je fais le ménage !

Mon amie Hafdis a laissé une superbe description en anglais sur cette légendaire sculpture.

" The enormous god with the beard of a wild man lies on its plinth and is being crawled all over by a group of small naked bronze children. They symbolise 16 different stages in the Nile floods (32 feet difference between the highest and lowest water levels). The horn of plenty symbolises the highest extent of flooding, which creates great wealth for the country.
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.

The bronze cast was made after a Roman marble statue in the Musei Vaticani, Rome. the original was discovered in 1513 near S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, and restored by Antonio Canova during the 19th century. Source: http://vejpark2.kk.dk/apps/monumenter/index.asp?lang=uk&mode=detalje&id=20
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Merci Hafdis ! / Thank you Hafdis !