Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur' has mentioned 'God' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Memphis was believed to be under the protection of the god Ptah, the patron of craftsmen. | WIKI |
| While attempting to draw ancient Egyptian history and religious elements into that of their own traditions, the Greek poet Hesiod in his Theogony explained the name of the city by saying that Memphis was a daughter of the Greek river god Nilus and the wife of Epaphus (the son of Zeus and Io), who founded the city and named it after his wife. | WIKI |
| Ritualistic object depicting the god Nefertem, who was mainly worshipped in Memphis,[18] The Walters Art Museum | WIKI |
| The city reached a peak of prestige under the Sixth Dynasty as a centre for the worship of Ptah, the god of creation and artworks. | WIKI |
| [19][20] The Memphis triad, consisting of the creator god Ptah, his consort Sekhmet, and their son Nefertem, formed the main focus of worship in the city. | WIKI |
| A large granite offering table on behalf of Amenemhat I mentioned the erection by the king of a shrine to the god Ptah, master of Truth. | WIKI |
| [37] Sheshonk also ordered the building of a new shrine for the god Apis, especially devoted to funeral ceremonies in which the bull was led to his death before being ritually mummified. | WIKI |
| The Hout-ka-Ptah,[Fnt 3] dedicated to the worship of the creator god Ptah, was the largest and most important temple in ancient Memphis. | WIKI |
| It is known in full as the Temple of Ptah of Rameses, Beloved of Amun, God, Ruler of Heliopolis. | WIKI |
| The archaeological explorations that took place here reveal that the southern part of the city indeed contain a large number of religious buildings with a particular devotion to the god Ptah, the principal deity of Memphis. | WIKI |
| This temple was discovered in the early twentieth century by Flinders Petrie, who identified it as a depiction of the Greek god Proteus cited by Herodotus. | WIKI |
| [47] It has also been demonstrated through the Great Harris Papyrus, which states that a statue of the goddess was made alongside those of Ptah and their son, the god Nefertem, during the reign of Rameses III, and that it was commissioned for the deities of Memphis at the heart of the great temple. | WIKI |
| In 1941, the archaeologist Ahmed Badawy discovered the first remains in Memphis that depicted the god Apis. | WIKI |
| During the Twenty-first Dynasty, a shrine of the great god Amun was built by Siamun to the south of the temple of Ptah. | WIKI |
| Ptah was the local god of Memphis, the god of creation and the patron of craftsmanship. | UNESCO |
| Other major religious buildings included the sun temples in Abu Ghurab and Abusir, the temple of the god Apis in Memphis, the Serapeum and the Heb-Sed temple in Saqqara. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): Memphis is associated with the religious beliefs related to the God of the Necropolis "Ptah" who was sanctified by the kings, as well as with outstanding ideas, artistic works and technologies of the capital of one of the most brilliant and long-standing civilizations of this planet. | UNESCO |