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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
    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, LibraryLycophron, AlexandraPausaniasStraboDiodoros, LibraryPliny, Natural History
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Herodotos, Histories 3.37
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Egypt
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