The Divine Crocodile Comes Like Sun Through the Waves
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Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty ca. 1991 – 1802 BC, excavated at Hawara (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
A King making an offering to Sobek, ca. 1st century BC, Ptolemaic Period, from the Fayum (Walters Art Museum)
Steatite figure of Sobek, 304-30 BC595-589 BC, from Crocodilopolis (Louvre Museum)Counterweight for ritual necklace, amulet, 664 BC – 332 BC (Louvre Museum)Granodiorite State of the Petesouchos Crocodile, 80-51 BC, Crocodilopolis – Hellenic inscription which reads “year 23, 23 Pharmouthi, for the great king Ptolemy, god Neos Dionysus was consecrated with the image of Petesouchos, great god” (MET Museum)Late Period (Louvre Museum)