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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Okidoki, post: 2841835, member: 70512&quot;]<b> EGYPT, Alexandria Hadrian Nome Obol 126-27 AD Opet standing</b></p><p>Reference.</p><p>Emmett 1265; RPC 3, 6447/7; Dattari 6313. Dattari-Savio Pl. 305, 292 (this coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Issue Menelaite</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ СΕΒ</p><p>Laureate head of Hadrian, r., drapery on l. shoulder</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. ΜΕΝΕΛΑΙ, L ΙΑ</p><p>Opet standing, facing, head l., holding long reed in l. hand, Harpocrates with lower body of a crocodile, l., in r. hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.14 gr</p><p>20 mm</p><p>12h</p><p><br /></p><p>Note.</p><p>From the Dattari collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Opet (Apet, Ipet, Ipy) was a benign hippopotamus goddess known as a protective and nourishing deity. Her name seems to mean &#039;harem&#039; or &#039;favored place&#039;. Our first reference to her comes from the Pyramid Texts, where the king asks that he may nurse at her breast so that he would &quot;neither thirst nor hunger...forever&quot;. Afterwards, she is called &quot;mistress of magical protection&quot; in funerary papyri. Under the epithet &#039;the great Opet&#039;, she is fused to some extent with Taweret, &#039;the great one&#039;, but she never completely losses all of her independent characteristics, irregardless of the fact that many modern texts completely assimilate her with Taweret</p><p>[ATTACH=full]672527[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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