Soknopaiou Nesos

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title: Soknopaiou Nesos
text: Soknopaiou Nesos was an ancient settlement in the Faiyum Oasis (Egypt), located a few kilometers north of Lake Qarun. The settlement - known nowadays as Dimeh es-Seba, possibly meaning «Dimeh of the lions» - was an important religious center with an imposing temple dedicated to the god Soknopaios, an oracular god in shape of a crocodile with falcon head, from which the toponym of the town itself derived. According to papyrological evidence Soknopaiou Nesos was founded in the 3rd century BCE, dur
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