Meryptah (high priest of Ptah)
Meryptah was an Ancient Egyptian priest at the end of the 18th Dynasty.[1] He was High Priest of Ptah and therefore the most important religious official at the Ptah temple at Memphis, the capital of Egypt at that time.
Meryptah is only known from a few objects that date on stylistic grounds to the end of the 18th Dynasty. He appears on a relief most likely coming from his tomb at Saqqara.[2] Furthermore, there is a statue, now in the Louvre (Inventory no. A 60) and an offering table in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin (Inventory no. 2273).[3]
References
- ^ Berta Porter, Rosalind L. B. Mossː Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, III (2). Memphis (second edition) Oxford 1981, p. 706 online
- ^ B. Pörtner, A. Wiedemannː Aegyptische Grabreliefs aus der Grossherzoglichen Altertümer-Sammlung zu Karlsruhe, Strassburg 1906, p. 32, pl. VII
- ^ André Jolles: Die ägyptisch-mykenischen Prunkgefässe, in: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 23 (1908). p. 249, fig. 50 online