Sasobek
| Sasobek | |||||
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| Vizier of the North | |||||
 Statue of Sasobek's son Horwedja, mentioning his father | |||||
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| Dynasty | 25th–26th Dynasty | ||||
| Pharaoh | Psamtik I | ||||
| Children | Horwedja | ||||
Sasobek (Egyptian: "Son of Sobek") was an ancient Egyptian vizier, who officiated between the late 25th – early 26th Dynasty, during the reign of pharaoh Psamtik I. Being the "Vizier of the North", he resided and officiated from Sais, in Lower Egypt.[1][2]
Sasobek is known from his fine siltstone sarcophagus which is now in the British Museum (EA 17),[3] and also from a kneeling greywacke statue of his son Horwedja, now in the Walters Art Museum of Baltimore (22.79).[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Günther Vittmann: Priester und Beamte im Theben der Spätzeit. Genealogische und prosopographische Untersuchungen zum thebanischen Priester- und Beamtentum der 25. und 26. Dynastie (= Beiträge zur Ägyptologie. Bd. 1), Afro-Pub, Wien 1978, p. 147
- ↑ Diana Alexandra Pressl: Beamte und Soldaten: Die Verwaltung in der 26. Dynastie in Ägypten (664 - 525 v. Chr.) Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32586-X (with additional literature), p. 161.
- ↑ Sarcophagus of Sasobek
- ↑ Kneeling Figure of Hor-wedja
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