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Description: | Mummified crocodile, provenance unrecorded. Coffin boards were originally with this object but their whereabouts are now unknown. Late Dynastic-Graeco Roman. Presented to the Wellcome Museum by Petrie in 1929. Crocodiles were once common in ancient Egypt but since the damming of the Nile they are scarce. They were sacred to the god Sobek and bred, killed and mummified in the Fayuum and Kom Ombo. Their mummies can be seen the Graeco Roman temple at Kom Ombo. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 747 B.C.-395 A.D.
Late Period - Graeco Roman | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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