Ptah

Summary

Ptah is an Ancient Egyptian deity^[1]. He draws 672 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_egyptian_deity category, ranking #14 of 130).^[2]

Key Facts

• Among Ptah's spouses was Sekhmet^[3].
• A child of Ptah was Nefertem^[4].
• Ptah's image is recorded as Ptah standing.svg^[5].
• Ptah's image is recorded as Statue of the god Ptah, granodiorite - Museo Egizio Turin C 86 p02.jpg^[6].
• Ptah is recorded as male^[7].
• Ptah's instance of is recorded as Ancient Egyptian deity^[8].
• Ptah's instance of is recorded as creator deity^[9].
• Ptah's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 15571376^[10].
• Ptah's GND ID is recorded as 119054221^[11].
• Ptah's IdRef ID is recorded as 027856631^[12].
• Ptah's part of is recorded as Egyptian mythology^[13].
• Ptah's part of is recorded as Q117313246^[14].
• Ptah's Commons category is recorded as Ptah^[15].
• Ptah's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p13k^[16].
• Ptah's Commons gallery is recorded as Ptah^[17].
• Ptah's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0052944^[18].
• Ptah's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[19].
• Ptah's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[20].
• Ptah's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• Ptah's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• Ptah's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[23].
• Ptah's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Ptah^[24].
• Ptah's CERL Thesaurus ID is recorded as cnp00546060^[25].
• Ptah's Hederich encyclopedia article is recorded as Phthas^[26].
• Ptah's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3172080^[27].

Body

Personal Life

Among Ptah's spouses was Sekhmet^[3]. A child of him was Nefertem^[4].

Works and Contributions

Things named for Ptah include Egypt^[28], a sovereign state^[29], in Egypt^[30], founded in 1922^[31] and 5011 he^[32], a potentially hazardous asteroid^[33].

Why It Matters

Ptah draws 672 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_egyptian_deity category, ranking #14 of 130).^[2] He has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] He is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for him include Egypt^[28], a sovereign state^[29], in Egypt^[30], founded in 1922^[31] and 5011 he^[32], a potentially hazardous asteroid^[33].

FAQs

Who was Ptah married to?

Ptah's spouses include Sekhmet^[3].