Chest with Writing

The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.

Date ca. 1st century BC (Greco-Roman Egypt)

Medium wood

Dimensions Height: 28.6 cm (11.3 in). Width: 29.9 cm (11.8 in). Depth: 35.6 cm (14 in). ; W at feet: 29.85 × 35.56 cm (11.8 × 14 in)

Walters Art Museum