English summary: One of the oldest, most characteristic, and best-attested representative of the Egyptian pantheon is the crocodile deity Sobek. Originally a water deity and guarantor of fertility, at the beginning of the second millennium Sobek began to take on other important aspects and connection with other important deities such as Re, Horus, and Osiris. Sobek's crocodile nature determined the conception of the deity in important ways but these began to change in later era. Holger Kockelmann offers the first extensive investigation of Sobek and other crocodile deities that are closely associated with him, which includes all cult regions in Egypt. The transdisciplinary study connects a wide variety of courses: Egyptian images and texts, cultic object, architectural and archeological finds in cult building, Greek papyrological and epigraphic sources, Hellensitic and Roman images, and reports by ancient authors across time. From this broad material base, the first part of the study examines the iconography of the god, the multi-facetted religious conceptions concerning him as well changing relationships with other deities, both Egyptian and foreign. The second part of the study focuses on the various aspects of the cult, especially the cult topography, ritual, temple equipment and the ritual reality of the crocodile god's shrines with particular attention paid to the interference between the cult and the concept of Sobek. The final part of this study includes the indices, bibliography and numerous panel images. German description: Einer der altesten, charakteristischsten und am besten bezeugten Vertreter des agyptischen Pantheon ist der Krokodilgott Sobek. Ursprunglich ein Ressortgott des Wassers und Garant von Fruchtbarkeit gewann er spatestens Anfang des zweiten Jahrtausends weitere bedeutende Aspekte hinzu und ging synkretistische Verbindungen mit Re, Horus und Osiris ein. Die Krokodilnatur bestimmte die Konzeption des Gottes aber massgeblich bis in spateste Zeit. Holger Kockelmann legt hier die erste umfassende Untersuchung zu Sobek und anderen mit ihm eng verwandten Krokodilgottern vor, die samtliche Belegzeiten und Kultregionen einbezieht. Transdisziplinar werden dabei die unterschiedlichsten Quellen vernetzt: agyptische Bildzeugnisse und Texte, reale Kultobjekte, architektonische und archaologische Befunde an den Kultbauten, griechische papyrologische und epigrafische Quellen, hellenistische und romische Bildzeugnisse nebst Berichten der klassischen antiken Autoren. Auf dieser breiten Materialbasis ergrundet Teil 1 differenziert die Ikonografie des Gottes, die um ihn herum entwickelten vielschichtigen religiosen Vorstellungen sowie seine Wechselbeziehungen zu anderen agyptischen wie auslandischen Gottheiten. Teil 2 widmet sich den diversen Gesichtspunkten des Kultes, insbesondere der Kulttopografie, dem Kultvollzug, Tempelausstattung und der rituellen Wirklichkeit an den Krokodilgotter-Heiligtumern mit einem besonderen Augenmerk auf Interferenzen zwischen dem Kult und der Konzeption des Sobek. Teil 3 bietet die Indices, Bibliografie und zahlreiche Tafeln.

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