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#MiddleKingdom 12th Dynasty - ca. 1991–1802 B.C.E - source
Fragment statue of the god Sobek
From: Hawara, Al Fayyum, Upper Egypt.
Currently expropriated and exposed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
This sculpture of the crocodile god Sobek originates from Hawara, site of the second pyramid complex of the king Amun-em-Hat the Third, which included numerous statues depicting deities of the Egyptian pantheon. Sobek was particularly venerated in the Fayyum, a marshy area west of the Nile Valley that was a natural home of crocodiles.
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