Crocodilopolis (Koinē Greek: Κροκοδειλόπολις Krokodeilópolis) was an ancient Egyptian settlement in Middle Egypt near present-day Faiyum. Crocodilopolis...

Sobek Shedety, the patron of the Faiyum's centrally located capital, Crocodilopolis (or Egyptian "Shedet"), was the most prominent form of the god. Extensive...

Κροκοδειλόπολις Krokodeilópolis), which was borrowed into Latin as Crocodīlopolis. The city worshipped a tamed sacred crocodile called, in Koine, Petsuchos...

queen Berenice his wife and sister and their children, the Jews in Crocodilopolis (dedicated) the proseuche .....] Pfeiffer, Stefan (2015). Griechische...

trouble in Upper Egypt between the towns of Crocodilopolis and Hermonthis, the negotiators sent from Crocodilopolis were the young men attached to the gymnasium...

Ancient Egypt had Sobek, the crocodile-headed god, with his cult-city Crocodilopolis, as well as Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility, with the...

flood waters. Neolithic settlements bordered the lake, and the town of Crocodilopolis (now Faiyum) grew up on the south where the higher ground created a...

Ephesus, also called Arsinoe Faiyum (Egypt), also called Arsinoe or Crocodilopolis, seat of the Roman Catholic titular bishopric Arsinoë in Arcadia Famagusta...

story of Menes related by the priests of the crocodile god Sobek at Crocodilopolis, in which the pharaoh Menes, attacked by his own dogs while out hunting...

Sumenu (Crocodilopolis) earlier than Middle Kingdom 4th Sobek (cult center) el-Mahamid Qibly Imiotru Different from Shedet (also called Crocodilopolis) Djerty...

Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis ('Arsinoë', also known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the...

al-Madinah Southern Sycamore Heryshaf 21 Atef-Pehu Shenakhen / Semenuhor (Crocodilopolis, Arsinoë) Faiyum Northern Sycamore Khnemu 22 Maten Tepihu (Aphroditopolis)...

1279–1213 BC Tanis Gezira Island, Cairo Cairo Egypt Abgig obelisk (a.k.a. Crocodilopolis obelisk) 12.70 m Senusret I 1971–1926 BC Faiyum (local area, found fallen)...

was in the Middle Kingdom city of Arsinoe in the Faiyum, known as "Crocodilopolis" by the Greeks. Another major temple to Sobek is in Kom Ombo; other...

Attested only in papyri; Entry in Theatrum database Olympian Theatre Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe Medinet el Fayum Egypt 29°18′30″N 30°50′39″E / 29.308374°N...

(Κροκοδειλόπολις, lit. "Crocodile City"), later rendered in Latin as Crocodīlopolis. The modern city of Faiyum now occupies the site. The first major manmade...

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assessment document which covered various lands "extending from near Crocodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayyum) southwards to a little short of the modern town...

Qarun Lake Qarun Lake Qarun Lake Waterfalls Qarun Lake Bahr Yussef Crocodilopolis Faiyum Lake El Rayan Fayum alphabet Faiyum Governorate Faiyum mummy...

waters crocodiles live. Sobek's main temple was located in the city of Crocodilopolis in the Fayyum area, and he also had the important Temple of Kom Ombo...

it by a curve to east, embracing the province of Arsinoë (formerly Crocodilopolis, now the city of Al Fayyum). Between the hills on which the Pyramids...

rediscovery of Sappho's poetry, with the discovery of a parchment fragment at Crocodilopolis (modern Faiyum) published by Friedrich Blass in 1880. From then until...

reeds or random body parts. At the main temple of Shedet, later called Crocodilopolis, sacred crocodiles were mummified and displayed in temple shrines or...

identified with Imiotru (Ancient Egyptian: ʼIwmìtrw) and thus also with the Crocodilopolis (Ancient Greek: Κροκοδείλων πόλις) which was distinct from the one in...

(Modern: "Medinet Madi" Ancient: "Narmouthis") El-Sheikh Sa'id Faiyum Crocodilopolis (Roman period: "Arsinoe", Ancient: "Shedet") el-Lahun Hawara Herakleopolis...

which would make his 31st year equal to 2 AD. From Medînet el-Faiyûm (Crocodilopolis-Arsinoë) a round-topped stela showing Augustus making offerings of incense...

Ancient Egypt had Sobek, the crocodile-headed god, with his cult-city Crocodilopolis, as well as Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility, with the...

followed by the lake itself. Sobek's cult center, which the Greeks called Crocodilopolis (ancient Egyptian "Shedyet"), is rendered next. Then a less significant...

(1818). "Description de l'obélisque de Begyg, auprès de l'ancienne Crocodilopolis". In Commission des Sciences et des Arts (ed.). Description de l'Égypte...

archaeological site of Karanis. The museum displays ancient Egyptian relics from Crocodilopolis and the Faiyum Oasis archaeological region. It covers the history of...