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Question 43

Reverse lookup: Writing, knowledge, calculation, and scribal activity point to which deity?

  1. The god Ptah
  2. Khnum
  3. ThothCorrect answer
  4. Seth

Explanation

Thoth's domains unite learned writing with reckoning and the work of scribes. Ptah is an important god and therefore plausible, but this particular cluster of intellectual and scribal associations does not identify him.

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