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Bronze figure of Sobek: this solid cast figure depicts the god Sobek as a plump crocodile sprawled on a hollow shrine shaped plinth. The details of his scales are carefully incised, his eyes have gold inlays and on his head he wears an 'atef' crown composed of a central tall reed crown with bulbous top (now lost) and sun disc, flanked by ostrich feathers and upreared cobras, all mounted on a pair of twisted ram's horns.
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