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View looking into the naos or chapel of the Temple of Sobek showing the niche in which the cult image of the god was kept; Theadelphia is the former Greek name for the city of Batn-Ihrît, 30 km NW of Medinet El-Faiyûm, site of seven temples during the Ptolemaic period. [This small temple was removed and transferred to the garden of the Graeco-Roman Museum.] Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ (accessed 2/7/2008)