 This temple is dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Ptah, his wife Sekhmet the goddess of war, and his son Nefertum.The temple was built in the Middle Kingdom, approximately in the 18th century BC, and additions were made by Thutmose III in the 15th century BC, during the New Kingdom.The temple underwent successive restorations restored by Shabaka in the 8th century BC, by the Ptolemies in the last centuries BC, and under the Roman emperor Tiberius in the 1st century AD.