Question
According to legend, King Menes founded this city in gratitude to an animal that saved him from drowning after his own hunt dogs chased him into Lake Moeris. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city in Fayum notable for its many cults to Sobek, who had the head of the type of animal it was named after.
ANSWER: Crocodilopolis [or Shedet]
[10e] Sobek was considered a god that established order in Egyptian religion because crocodiles ate these animals, which were considered agents of chaos. One of these aquatic creatures ate Osiris’s penis.
ANSWER: fish [or catfish]
[10m] According to a story in the Coffin Texts, Sobek invented the fishing net to retrieve this body part of Horus, which was cut off and thrown into the Nile by Isis.
ANSWER: Horus’s hand
<Taylor Harvey, Mythology>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |