This historical figure was depicted with a cropped or shaven head, seated with a roll of papyrus on his lap, and was thought to have been the son of Ptah and Khredu-ankh.
This historical figure was depicted with a cropped or shaven head, seated with a roll of papyrus on his lap, and was thought to have been the son of Ptah and Khredu-ankh. Likely responsible for the first temple at Edfu and the first pyramid, the so-called Step Pyramid at Saqqara, he was an architect, astrologer, and chief adviser to King Zoser, but later he became the patron of craftsmen and identified with Asclepius in his role as a physician. FTP, who was this Egyptian figure, one of the few mortals to achieve a sort of sainthood?
This historical figure was depicted with a cropped or shaven head, seated with a roll of papyrus on his lap, and was thought to have been the son of Ptah and Khredu-ankh.
Imhotep