“Even
the meaning of his names, sbk, escapes us. It has been connected
with the verb sAq, ‘pull together’1
, which could also be written
sbq2
, so that it could be understood as ‘he who is reassembled’,
in conformity with an identification of Sobek with Osiris attested in the sources from the Late Period onwards; or also as ‘he who
reassembles’, evoking his role, known starting from the Middle
Kingdom, as saviour to the dead Osiris…”(Zecchi, Sobek of Shedet)
Sobek’s Name
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