Detail of an ancient Egyptian wooden chest, showing a king making an offering to the crocodile-god S
Detail of an ancient Egyptian wooden chest, showing a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek, with a demotic inscription above. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE (end of the Ptolemaic or beginning of the Roman period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum. -- source link
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