Sasobek (Egyptian: "Son of Sobek") was an ancient Egyptian vizier, who officiated between the late 25th – early 26th Dynasty, during the reign of pharaoh Psamtik I. Being the "Vizier of the North", he resided and officiated from Sais, in Lower Egypt.Günther Vittmann: Priester und Beamte im Theben der Spätzeit. Genealogische und prosopographische Untersuchungen zum thebanischen Priester- und Beamtentum der 25. und 26. Dynastie (= Beiträge zur Ägyptologie. Bd. 1), Afro-Pub, Wien 1978, p. 147Diana Alexandra Pressl: Beamte und Soldaten: Die Verwaltung in der 26. Dynastie in Ägypten (664 - 525 v. Chr.) Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, (with additional literature), p. 161.
Sasobek is known from his fine siltstone sarcophagus which is now in the British Museum (EA 17),Sarcophagus of Sasobek and also from a kneeling greywacke statue of his son Horwedja, now in the Walters Art Museum of Baltimore (22.79).Kneeling Figure of Hor-wedja
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