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Ancient Egyptians associated baboons with sun worship as baboons bask in the morning sun while making cackling noises. The baboons' outstretched, bent arms show they are worshipping the sun god above.

This is the only large, museum-quality sculpture of Sobek-Ra in semi-precious stone which exists.

Limestone falcon-headed crocodile, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo possesses an interesting white limestone version whose body is largely covered in feathers. However, it has neither baboons nor the three incised holes atop the head and neck, unlike the green stone sculpture, which undoubtedly held a golden crown.

Likely a combined Sakhmet-Tawret amulet made for a pregnant woman and her child, because the lion-headed goddess Sakhmet offered protection from disease, while the pregnant female hippopotamus goddess Tawret offered protection to a mother and baby at childbirth.

One ancient Egyptian myth claims the sun god Ra—enraged that humans were not praying to him correctly—descended on Egypt in the form of the lion-headed goddess of war, Sakhmet, to seek revenge, savagely killing all humans in sight...until some quick-thinking Egyptians dyed barrels of beer red to look like blood...and the bloodthirsty Sakhmet, upon drinking the beer, fell asleep! Thus saving humanity.