Crocodilopolis
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Sumenu or Smenu (Egyptian: S(w)mnw) was an ancient Egyptian town located in Upper Egypt. It housed the most prominent early-Middle Kingdom sanctuary of the crocodile-god Sobek.
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- Country
- Ancient Egypt
- Located in
- Nome 4 of Upper Egypt
- Elevation
- 461
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- different from
- Crocodilopolis
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Sumenu or Smenu (Egyptian: S(w)mnw) was an ancient Egyptian town located in Upper Egypt. It housed the most prominent early-Middle Kingdom sanctuary of the crocodile-god Sobek.
==Identification==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crocodilopolis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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