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A project of the American Research Center in Egypt

Sokar

Deity
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A hawk-headed god of Memphis, Sokar was the patron of craftsmen and of the funerary cult, sometimes syncretized with Ptah and Osiris. He was also venerated as an earth or fertility god. An elaborate festival was celebrated in his honor in the necropolis of western Thebes.