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🌍 Memphis (Egypt)

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8194714" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8194714">🌍 Egypt </span>
  • Information
    city in Egypt
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5715
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/736963
    Cult site of
    👤 Hephaistos  👤 Sarapis  👥 the Cabeiroi  👤 Ptah
    Place of burial of
    👤 Isis
    Founded by
    👤 Epaphos (s. of Io) son of Zeus and IoApollodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)👤 Father of Memphis (name unknown) founder of MemphisDiodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyDiodorosGreekLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Named by
    👤 Father of Memphis (name unknown) founder of MemphisDiodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyDiodorosGreekLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Eponym
    👤 Memphis (Egyptian) daughter of NileApollodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Ruled by
    👤 Aigyptos (eponym) eponym of Egypt, father of fifty sonsDiodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyDiodorosGreekLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Relics preserved on site
    🏛️ the Tomb of Isis (Memphis)  🏛️ the Plum Tree at Memphis
    Encompases
    🌍 the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🏛️ the Tomb of Isis (Memphis)  🏛️ the Gate of Cocytos (Memphis)  🏛️ the Gate of Lethe (Memphis)  🏛️ the Propylon in the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🏛️ the Plum Tree at Memphis
    Related Entities
    👤 Aigyptos (eponym)  👤 Daidalos  👤 Epaphos (s. of Io)  👤 Hephaistos  👤 Isis  👤 Io  👤 Perseus (Argive)  👤 Memphis (Egyptian)  👤 Sarapis  🌍 Egypt  🌍 Memphis (Egypt)  🌍 Phoinicia  🌍 Lerna (Argolid)  👥 the Cabeiroi  🌍 River Cocytos (Underworld)  🌍 River Lethe (Underworld)  🌍 the Sanctuary of Sarapis at Athens 🌍 Alexandria (Egypt)  🌍 the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🌍 Carne (Phoinicia)  👤 Ptah  🏛️ the Tomb of Isis (Memphis)  👤 Father of Memphis (name unknown)  🏛️ the Gate of Cocytos (Memphis)  🏛️ the Gate of Lethe (Memphis)  🏛️ the Propylon in the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🏺 the Statue of Daidalos  🏛️ the Plum Tree at Memphis
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.4 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1283-1308 📖 Pausanias 1.18.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.51.3-1.51.4 📖 Strabo 10.3.21 📖 Pliny, Natural History 15.13.1
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, Library Lycophron, Alexandra Pausanias Strabo Diodoros, Library Pliny, Natural History
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Herodotos, Histories 3.37
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Egypt
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