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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3878895, member: 103829&quot;]Dear Friends of ancient mythology!</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to post a series of articles about coins from Alexandria. Here is the first one.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Coin:</b></p><p>Egypt, Alexandria, Hadrian, AD 117-138</p><p>AE - tetradrachm, 24mm, 12.82g, 330°</p><p>struck AD 127/8 (year 12)</p><p>Obv.: AVT KAI - TPAI AΔPIA CEB</p><p>Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev.: L ΔΩΔE - KATOV (year 12)</p><p>God Ptah-Sokar- Osiris, wrapped in mummy bandages, bearded, sun disk on</p><p>head, stg. r., holding with both hands sceptre with jackal head (Anubis sceptre)</p><p>Ref.: Milne 1262; Köln 982; Emmet 883; BMC 637; Dattari 1445; Hunter 637;</p><p>Mionnet 1050</p><p>Rare, VF</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024676[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Creator God Ptah, the composer, ist one of oldest Egyptian gods. He is known from the 1st dynasty and his main cult location was Memphis, the metropolis of the old Empire of Lower Egypt. It is said that he has ruled already 9000 years previous to all other gods.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless he never was member of the first rank of Egyptian gods. He always stood in the shadow of Re, Osiris and Amun. But in the cosmogony of Memphis he became the supreme Creator. According to the cosmogony of Memphis Ptha has created the universe alone by the power of his heart and tongue, the power of his will and his words. We remember the gospel of St.John 1,14: <i>Kαι ο λογος σαρξ εγενετο </i>(The Word became flesh). He himself has created himself by his own.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was seen as god of the craftsmen and he is said to have invented the metallurgy. Imhotep, the famous architect of Pharaoh Djoser and erector of the step pyramid of Saccara, was suggested as son of Ptah. A central role he naturally has played in Karnak and in the village of craftsmen in the Valley of the Kings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another myth tells that he has created the world on his pottery wheel. Thus he looked like the god Chnum. We see that he was a chthonic deity too. His wife was the lion goddess Sachmet and with their child Nefertem the Triad of Memphis was completed. As incarnation of the god the Apis bull was worshipped in Memphis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually he is depicted in the shape of a human mummy in a narrow robe, shaven head with a narrow blue cap. As symbol of his power he holds a sceptre composed of the Pheh sign, the Was sceptre and the Djed pile. Often he stands on a base formed by the hieroglyph &#039;<i>maA</i>&#039; as symbol of the universal order. In Memphis he introduced the group of the nine gods from Heliopolis: Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Created he has this group by his thoughts and his word alone. In this way he created the legal order too. In this world order he was the God of Light and Truth.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024673[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ptah, drawing by comic author Rafael Morales, &#039;Les Voyages d&#039;Orion&#039;, 1994</p><p><br /></p><p>Already in the Old Empire his cult was merged with the cult of the hawk-shaped Sokar of Memphis, who probably has named Saccara. Because here was located the necropolis of the 1st dynasty the development of the Death God Ptah-Sokar is understandable. Gradually this god was merged with the other Death God Osiris to the deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, who was responsible for creation, death and resurrection. Hence many of his wooden statues have been found as burial gifts.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the Hellenism Ptah was equated with the Greek god Hephaistos.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have added</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) the pic of a statue from the British Museum, which was used as burial gift, and</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024674[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(2) a pic of the temple of Ptah in Karnak.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024675[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Sources:</b></p><p>(1) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/www.manetho.de" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/www.manetho.de">www.manetho.de</a></p><p>(2) <a href="http://www.egyptianmyths.net/sokar.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.egyptianmyths.net/sokar.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.egyptianmyths.net/sokar.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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