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Description: | This figurine is made by hollow construction of terracotta, with an undecorated back. The lower arms and legs are no longer extant. The figurine stands with arms outstretched wearing a draped garment and the traditional Hathor headdress. The town known today as Medinet el-Faiyum was once a marshy lagoon where the crocodile god Sobek was once worshipped from the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 - 2181 BC) in Egyptian history. By the Middle Kingdom (2055 - 1650 BC) a sophisticated system of drains and dams had cleared land and settlements were established upon what used to be marshland. A series of royal building began including temple, palaces and pyramids, dating from the Middle Kingdom. During the Greek period (from 332 BC) it became known as Crocodilopolis and under Ptolemy II (285 - 246 BC) the city was extended and later called Arsinoe.
Nearby sites include a temple to Sokanobkonneus (a local variant of Sobek), which has been largely unexcavated; Dimai, which was the starting point of caravan routes to Libya; and, the city of Karanis, a largely Graeco-Roman site.
Accession number: NCM 1879-225 | Subjects: | religion ceramics EGYPTIAN GREEK? figures ROMAN? | Temporal: | 305BC-640 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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