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 | |
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Vizier of the North | |
Dynasty | 25th–26th Dynasty |
Pharaoh | Psamtik I |
Children | Horwedja |
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S3-Sbk in hieroglyphs | ||||
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Era: Late Period (664–332 BC) | ||||
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]