the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertem. He was also regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep. Ptah is an Egyptian...

temple. The Temple of Apis in Memphis was the main temple dedicated to the worship of the bull Apis, considered to be a living manifestation of Ptah....

Ra and Ptah. Ra-Horakhty, Amun Ra and Ptah were the main divinities in that period and their cult centers were at Heliopolis, Thebes and Memphis respectively...

condition. Originally erected as a lasting monument at the Great Temple of Ptah in Memphis in the late eighth century BCE, the stone was at some point removed...

the vault in the Temple of Ptah; the upper portion represents the temple itself Radamès has been taken into the lower floor of the temple and sealed up in...

built additions to the temple of Ptah in Memphis. There are several inscriptions which attest to Khaemweset's activities in Memphis. Khaemweset restored...

representing Heliopolis, and Ptah representing Memphis. The chapels originally had alleys that lead to seven exits at the front of the temples which would have served...

feline goddesses – mainly Bastet. Sekhmet was considered the wife of the god Ptah and mother of his son Nefertum. She was also said to be the mother of the...

for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death...

established in the early religion of Memphis as the manifestations of the creator-god Ptah. The theology of Memphis placed Ptah on the top of the creation chain...

2150 bce) king Pepi I. Memphis was also known as, Hut-ka-Ptah (“mansion of the ka of Ptah”) owing to the city's association with Ptah, a powerful deity often...

deities. With Ptolemy III the focus shifted strongly to Ptah, worshipped at Memphis. Ptah's earthly avatar, the Apis bull came to play a crucial role...

another vizier was in charge for Lower Egypt. Ptah and Apis are deities especially connected with Memphis in Lower Egypt. Therefore, he was most likely...

Triad of Memphis, with Nefertem depicted standing at Ptah's right and Sekhmet at his left. The Memphite Triad on a Solar barque including Ptah, Sekhmet...

located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct is by far the largest of...

Joos van Ghistele and André Thevet, put Thebes in or close to Memphis. The Karnak temple complex is first described by an unknown Venetian in 1589, though...

Gates of Heaven". The high priest of Ptah in Memphis is priest-sem. The priests of the high clergy attached to a temple are organized into four colleges who...

"Son of Ptah",: v?, p106 [volume & issue needed] his mother was sometimes claimed to be Sekhmet, the patron of Upper Egypt whose consort was Ptah. The Upper...

and the vanquisher of the usurper Set. Ptah-Seker (who resulted from the identification of the creator god Ptah with Seker) thus gradually became identified...

father". Ptolemaic pharaohs were crowned by the Egyptian high priest of Ptah at Memphis, but resided in the multicultural and largely Greek city of Alexandria...

Ptahemhat called Ty was High Priest of Ptah in Memphis during the time of 18th Dynasty reign of Tutankhamen and/or Ay. A block of his Saqqara tomb show...

the title of High Priest of Ptah. Pipi II is attested under Siamun on a temple building at Memphis. The gateway of this temple features a lintel mentioning...

rest of their lives, as with the Apis bull worshipped in Memphis as a manifestation of Ptah. Other animals were selected for much shorter periods. These...

Ptah temple enclosure of Memphis—and notes that this king built: fairly widely in the area, undoubtedly including a pylon and forecourt at the Ptah temple...

II Sibaste already had a son named Shoshenq "D", the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis, who was buried or reburied by Shoshenq III Sibaste, it has been suggested...

Ugaritic texts. The first is Memphis, referred to as ḥqkpt or ḥkpt, from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (Hut-ka-Ptah, “house of the ka of Ptah”). In the Baal Cycle it...

Saqqara, a necropolis near Memphis in Lower Egypt. It was a burial place of the Apis, sacred bulls that were incarnations of Ptah. It was believed that the...

Siamun's Year 16 records a land-sale between some minor priests of Ptah at Memphis. The Year 17 inscription is an important palaeographical development...

steward of Memphis. These letters, found at Gurob, informing the pharaoh that the royal estates in Memphis are "in good order" and the temple of Ptah is "prosperous...

Southern Sycamore was her main temple in Memphis. At that site she was described as the daughter of the city's main deity, Ptah. The cult of Ra and Atum at...