A fine miniature gold statuette of Heryshef wearing the Atef crown .

which now resides in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Heryshef was a Ram-god who was prominent in Middle Egypt at ancient Hines (modern Ihnasya el-Medina) on the west bank of the Nile. His cult apparently existed at this location as early as the 1st Dynasty of the Old Kingdom

Iconographical representations of the god were usually as a long-horned ram or ram-headed man. His name literally means, “he who is upon his lake”, and it has been suggested that he was a creator god who emerged from the waters of the first primaeval lake. Unfortunately, inscriptional evidence of this god is scant, so his exact nature is unclear.

He was identified with Ra and Osiris in Egyptian mythology, as well as Dionysus or Heracles in Greek mythology. The identification with Heracles may be related to the fact that in later times his name was sometimes reanalysed as Ḥry-šf.t "He who is over strength".