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Combined from Dynasty XIX, the entity Ptah-Tatenen results from the union of two Memphite gods, Ptah and Tatenen, who were then worshipped as a royal creator god. As usual he is depicted in human form wearing a crown consisting of a pair of ram's horns surmounted by a sun disk and two tall feathers.
The original form of Ptah, who raised from the primordial mound, was as a creator-god and maker of things, the patron of craftsmen, especially sculptors. He was thus not originally a funerary god, but a creator god, even when combined with Tatenen. He later acquired these functions in his association with Sokar and Osiris, making the combined Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, one of the main funeral entities of later times.
The other entity, Tatenen (meaning 'the land that rises up") is analogous with the primordial mound which emerged from the ocean (was this from where Ptah arose?), but also with the fertile alluvium deposit after the Nile flood and (by extension) entire Egypt.
Montuherkhepeshef makes, with the help of an ewer, a libation of water on the offerings placed on the table in front of him
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