Chest with Writing

ca. 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic-Roman)

30 cm 28.6 cm 35.6 cm

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The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.

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4415
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[From the Faiyum]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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8
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