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A hymn to Ptah dating to the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt says Ptah "crafted the world in the design of his heart," and the Shabaka Stone, from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, says Ptah "gave life to all the gods and their kas as well, through this heart and this tongue."
The djed came to be associated with Seker, the falcon god of the Memphite Necropolis, then with Ptah, the Memphite patron god of craftsmen. [7] Ptah was often referred to as "the noble djed", and carried a scepter that was a combination of the djed symbol and the ankh, the symbol of life. [3] Ptah gradually came to be assimilated into Osiris.
Nakhy (or Nana) was an Ancient Egyptian priest in the function of a High Priest of Ptah, who lived most likely in the 19th Dynasty. Nakhy is only known from his granite sarcophagus that is today in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (Inv. no. 768). [1] The sarcophagus shows Nakhy as mummy and is decorated with images and texts.
His main title was that of a great one of the leaders of craftsmen, that in later periods is the main designation of the High Priest of Ptah. Ptahshepses is mainly known from a false door that is today in the British Museum (Inv. no. EA 682), but coming from his tomb.
The temple of "Ptah-South-of-His-Wall" in its every place was under my charge, although there never was a single High Priest of Ptah before." [4] A large temple complex dating to the time of Ramesses II is located at the modern site of Mit Rahina. The Temple of Ptah from this time period was one of the largest temple complexes in Egypt.
Merit-Ptah first appears in literature in a 1937 book by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead on female doctors. [10] Campbell Hurd-Mead presents two ancient Egyptian female doctors, an unnamed one dating to the Fifth Dynasty and Merit-Ptah, dating evidently to the New Kingdom as Hurd-Mead states that she is shown in the Valley of the Kings (the burial ground of Egyptian kings from about 1500 BCE to 1080 BCE).
5011 Ptah (/ ˈ t ɑː /; prov. designation: 6743 P-L) is a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It was discovered by astronomers with the Palomar–Leiden survey on 24 September 1960.
Ptah is a god in Egyptian mythology. Ptah may also refer to: 5011 Ptah, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1960; Ptah-Du-Auu, an Egyptian priest who lived during his kingdom's 4th dynasty; Merit-Ptah, an Egyptian female doctor of the 2nd dynasty, or possibly a 20th century fabrication; Ptahil, creator of the material universe in Mandaeism