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Memphis

Alternative site names: 
Mit Rahina; Miet-Rahena; Mit Rahinah; Mit Rahineh; Mit Rahîneh; Mit Riheina; Mit-Rahine; Mit-Rahineh; Mitrahina; Mitrahineh; Myt-Rahyneh; Mît-Rahîneh
Arabic site names: 
منف
Type of site: 
Temples; palace; town; workshops; cemetery; church
Timeframe: 
Temples (19th Dynasty); palace (19th Dynasty, 26th Dynasty); town (Roman Period); workshops (Graeco-Roman Period); cemetery (First Intermediate Period); church (Late Antique Period).
Overlay map: 
Original excavator's map of the archaeological features at Memphis superimposed on a modern Google map image. Created by Kristian Brink, 2015.
Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities : found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Memphis and Athribis, 1908 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, June 29th to July 25th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1908. London : BSAE.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Memphis (Palace of Apries) and Thebes (Qurneh), 1909 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 5th to 31st / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1909. London : BSAE.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Memphis and Meydum, 1910 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 4th to 30th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1910. London : BSAE.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Hawara, Gerzeh, Mazghuneh and Memphis, 1911 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, June 26 - July 29 / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1911. London : BSAE.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Tarkhan, Heliopolis and Memphis, 1912; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, June 24th to July 20th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1912. London : BSAE.

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities : found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Tarkhan, Riqqeh and Memphis, 1913 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, June 30th to July 26th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1913. London : BSAE.

Engelbach, R. 1915. Riqqeh and Memphis VI. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [25] (19th year). London: School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritch.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1909. Memphis I. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [15] (15th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritch.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1909. The palace of Apries (Memphis II). British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [17] (15th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1911. Roman portraits and Memphis (IV). British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [20] (17th year). London: School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritch.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Ernest Mackay, and Gerald Wainwright 1910. Meydum and Memphis (III). British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [18] (16th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders, G. A. Wainwright, and A. H. Gardiner 1913. Tarkhan I and Memphis V. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [23] (19th year). London, Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld.

Site gallery: 

Ancient Roads from Memphis merged.jpg

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Ancient Roads from Memphis.jpg [2]

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Memphis Map.jpg [3]

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Palace of Apries.1.jpg [4]

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Palace of Apries 2jpg.jpg [5]

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West Hall of Ramessu.jpg [6]

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[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/ancient-roads-memphis-mergedjpg
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/ancient-roads-memphisjpg
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/memphis-mapjpg
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/palace-apries1jpg
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/palace-apries-2jpgjpg
[6] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/file/west-hall-ramessujpg