![]() Its very large pronaos was still standing in 1826, but was demolished and used as fill for the foundation of a sugar factory by the mid-19th century. Later known as el-Ashmunein in Egyptian Arabic, the Temple of Thoth was mostly destroyed before the beginning of the Christian era. Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Hermopolis ( Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnw /χaˈmaːnaw/, Egyptological pronunciation: "Khemenu", Coptic: Ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Shmun). He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. ![]() His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. Thoth (from Koinē Greek: Θώθ Thṓth, borrowed from Coptic: Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout, Egyptian: Ḏḥwtj, the reflex of ḏḥwtj " is like the ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity. Ibis, moon disk, papyrus scroll, reed pens, writing palette, stylus, baboon, scales ![]() Thoth, in one of his forms as an ibis-headed man
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