Sasobek Explained

Sasobek
Style:	Vizier of the North
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]

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Diana Alexandra Pressl: Beamte und Soldaten: Die Verwaltung in der 26. Dynastie in Ägypten (664 - 525 v. Chr.) Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, (with additional literature), p. 161.
3. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=396596&objectId=8755&partId=1 Sarcophagus of Sasobek
4. http://art.thewalters.org/detail/8349 Kneeling Figure of Hor-wedja