With his companion Sekhmet and the youthful god Nefertem, he was one of the Memphite Triad of deities. |
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This dynasty was probably marked by a decline of Memphite influence paralleling the rise of a sun cult centred at Heliopolis. |
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In years 1938-58, at Memphite necropolis, north Sakkara, had been discovered a cemetery dated back to the I dynasty period. |
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But the glory of Old Kingdom mural decoration is the low-relief work in the royal funerary monuments of the 5th dynasty and in the private tombs of the 5th and 6th dynasties in the Memphite necropolis. |
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To the north we find the most prestigious of the Memphite necropolises: the Giza plain and the three monumental pyramids of the 4th Dynasty rulers Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus. |
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