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INTRODUCTION
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14765 in the British Museum).

Ptolemy V dedicated to him a temple on the island of Philae.

His cult increased much in later days, and a special temple was dedicated to him near Memphis Sethe suggests that the cult of Imhotep gave the inspiration to the Hermetic literature.

The association of Imhotep with the famous temple at Edfu is of special interest.
(3) Breasted: A History of the Ancient Egyptians, Scribner, New York, 1908, p.

104.
(4) K.Sethe: Imhotep, der Asklepios der Aegypter, Leipzig, 1909 (Untersuchungen, etc., ed.


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