Crocodile Amulet

Mould-made faience amulet in the shape of a crocodile, probably representing the god Sobek. Pale blue dotted with yellow blobs. Pierced for suspension. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Very worn, surface dirt. From the Egypt Exploration Fund 1884 excavations at Tanis (San el-Hagar), directed by William Flinders Petrie; assigned to the Egypt Exploration Fund in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.