Umm el-Baragat - Tebtynis

Some 9mi/15km southeast of Medinet el-Fayyum, on the banks of the Bahr el-Gharaq at the village of Umm el-Baragat, are the remains of ancient Tebtynis, in the necropolis of which many papyrus rolls were found on crocodile mummies. The city, which may have originated in the Ramessid period and became a place of some consequence in the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, had a temple dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, similar to the one at Medinet Madi, of which only scanty remains survive. Within the temple precincts were found many hieratic, demotic and Greek papyri, some of them with very informative texts, particularly in the fields of medicine and religion.