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 'Temple' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Its great temple, Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning "Enclosure of the ka of Ptah"), was one of the most prominent structures in the city. | WIKI |
| The name of this temple, rendered in Greek as Axe1xbcxb4xcexb3xcfx85xcfx80xcfx84oxcfx82 (Ai-gy-ptos) by Manetho, is believed to be the etymological origin of the modern English name Egypt. | WIKI |
| The importance of the temple is attested with payments of food and other goods necessary for the funerary rites of royal and noble dignitaries. | WIKI |
| [23] This temple also is cited in the annals preserved on the Palermo Stone, and beginning from the reign of Menkaura, we know the names of the high priests of Memphis who seem to have worked in pairs, at least until the reign of Teti. | WIKI |
| Its centre remained around the temple complex of Ptah. | WIKI |
| Examples include the two stone giants that have been recovered amidst the temple ruins, which were later restored under the name of Rameses II. | WIKI |
| The greatest work of this king in Memphis, however, was a temple called "Nebmaatra united with Ptah", which is cited by many sources from the period of his reign, including artefacts listing the works of Huy, the High Steward of Memphis. | WIKI |
| [32] The location of this temple has not been precisely determined, but a number of its brown quartzite blocks were found to have been reused by Ramesses II (r. 1279xe2x80x931213 BC) for the construction of the small temple of Ptah. | WIKI |
| This leads some Egyptologists to suggest that the latter temple had been built over the site of the first. | WIKI |
| Siamun is cited as having built a temple dedicated to Amun, the remains of which were found by Flinders Petrie in the early twentieth century, in the south of the temple of Ptah complex. | WIKI |
| The funerary cult surrounding this monument, well known in the New Kingdom, was still functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple, leading some scholars to suggest that it may have contained the royal burial chamber of the king. | WIKI |
| From this period date many developments of the Saqqara Serapeum, including the building of the Chamber of Poets, as well as the dromos adorning the temple, and many elements of Greek-inspired architecture. | WIKI |
| Enriched by centuries of veneration, the temple was one of the three foremost places of worship in Ancient Egypt, the others being the great temples of Ra in Heliopolis, and of Amun in Thebes. | WIKI |
| Much of what is known today about the ancient temple comes from the writings of Herodotus, who visited the site at the time of the first Persian invasion, long after the fall of the New Kingdom. | WIKI |
| Herodotus claimed that the temple had been founded by Menes, and that the core building of the complex was restricted to priests and kings. | WIKI |
| Archaeological work undertaken in the last century has gradually unearthed the temple's ruins, revealing a huge walled compound accessible by several monumental gates located along the southern, western, and eastern walls. | WIKI |
| The remains of the great temple and its premises are displayed as an open-air museum near the great colossus of Rameses II, which originally marked the southern axis of the temple. | WIKI |
| The specific appearance of the temple is unclear at present, and only that of the main access to the perimeter are known. | WIKI |
| This king also built at least three shrines within the temple compound, where worship is associated with those deities to whom they were dedicated. | WIKI |
| This small temple, adjoining the southwest corner of the larger Temple of Ptah, was dedicated to the deified Rameses II, along with the three state deities: Horus, Ptah and Amun. | WIKI |
| The temple opened to the east toward a path paved with other religious buildings. | WIKI |
| Located farther east, and near to the great colossus of Rameses, this small temple is attributed to the nineteenth dynasty, and seems to have been dedicated to Ptah and his divine consort Sekhmet, as well as deified Rameses II. | WIKI |
| In the southeast of the Great Temple complex, the king Merneptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty founded a new shrine in honour of the chief deity of the city, Ptah. | 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 |
| Only this part of the temple has been unearthed; the remainder of the chamber has yet to be explored a little farther north. | WIKI |
| During the excavations, archaeologists unearthed the first traces of an edifice built of mudbrick, which quickly proved to be a large ceremonial palace built alongside the temple proper. | WIKI |
| Some of the key elements of the stone temple were donated by Egypt to the museum at the University of Pennsylvania, which financed the expedition, while the other remained at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. | WIKI |
| The temple remained in use throughout the rest of the New Kingdom, as evidenced by enrolment surges during the reigns of later kings. | WIKI |
| A larger temple dedicated to Hathor, indeed one of the foremost shrines of the goddess in the country, is thought to have existed elsewhere in the city, but to date has not been discovered. | WIKI |
| A temple dedicated to Mithras, dated from the Roman period, has been uncovered in the grounds north of Memphis. | WIKI |
| A temple dedicated to the goddess Sekhmet, consort of Ptah, has not yet been found, but is currently certified by Egyptian sources. | 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 |
| 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. | WIKI |
| According to Herodotus, who described the temple's courtyard as a peristyle of columns with giant statues, it was built during the reign of Psamtik I. | WIKI |
| He details that the temple consisted of two chambers, one for the bull and the other for his mother, and all was built near the temple of Ptah. | WIKI |
| At the temple, Apis was used as an oracle, his movements being interpreted as prophecies. | WIKI |
| He was given a window in the temple through which he could be seen, and on certain holidays was led through the streets of the city, bedecked with jewellery and flowers. | WIKI |
| A stele found at Saqqara shows that Nectanebo II had ordered the restoration of this building, and elements dated from the Thirtieth Dynasty have been unearthed in the northern part of the chamber, confirming the time of reconstruction in this part of the temple. | WIKI |
| This sacred part of the temple would be the only part that has survived, and would confirm the words of Strabo and Diodorus, both of whom stated that the temple was located near the temple of Ptah. | WIKI |
| This temple (or temples) was most likely dedicated to the Theban Triad, consisting of Amun, his consort Mut, and their son Khonsu. | WIKI |
| A temple dedicated to Aten in Memphis is attested by hieroglyphs found within the tombs of Memphite dignitaries of the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, uncovered at Saqqara. | WIKI |
| In addition, the urban area consisted of cemeteries that were constructed to the west of the great temple. | WIKI |
| According to official texts of his reign, Merneptah ordered the building of a large walled enclosure housing a new temple and an adjoining palace. | WIKI |
| It was part of a series of structures built within the temple precinct in the Late Period, and contained a royal palace, a fortress, barracks, and armouries. | WIKI |
| Temple of Hathor Port Palace of Apries Northern enclosure Temple of Rameses II Ankh-tawy Teti Pepi I Serapeum Djoser Temple and palace of Mernptah Temple of Ptah | WIKI |