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PTAH, the Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, special patron of hand-workers and artisans. Worshipped in Mempnis, he perhaps owed his importance more to the political prominence of that town than to anything else. He was early identified wi ...

ETAH, a town and district of British India, in the Agra division of the United Provinces. The town is situated on the Grand Trunk road. Pop. (1901) 8796. The district has an area of 1737 sq. m. The district consists for the most part of an elevated alluvial pl

UTAH,1 one of the Central Western states of the United States of America. It lies between latitudes 37° and 42° N. and between longitudes 32° and 37° W. from Washington (i.e. about 109° i' 34* and 114° i' 34" respectively W. of Greenwich). The state is bounded

EPITAPH (Gr. fcnrdifru*, sc. X&yot, from fcri, upon, and ratfaf, a tomb), strictly, an inscription upon a tomb, though by a natural extension of usage the name is applied to anything written ostensibly for that purpose whether actually inscribed upon a tomb or

... topolis (Esna), but also at a late date as a member of the Memphite triad, with Ptah as hu-lianil and Nefertem (Iphthimis) as son : often, too, confounded with Ubasti.