The name H'py, the denomination of the Egyptian god of the flooding of the Nile, appears in numerous anthroponyms – mainly written in demotic and in some Greek transcriptional variants – dated from the Graeco-Roman period. The use of the name Îapy in Graeco-Roman anthroponyms shows that the traditional cult of the god remained in this period, in which the Greek divinization of the Nile is also developed. The preservation of the Egyptian anthroponyms containing the name Îapy and the use of Greek names related to the Nile as new anthroponyms reflect the parallel cult of both gods in Graeco-Roman Egypt.
