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Shabaka Stone (Memphite Theology)
A 585 kg stone says Ptah made the world by speech, then became a millstone.
Inscribed c.710 BCE (25th Dyn.), claims to copy worm-eaten older text; composition…
Was the worm-eaten original real, or a story that made the new text old?
Photo: Sanjay ach, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons