Talk:Apis (Egyptian mythology)

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Can anyone confirm the age at which the Apis bull was killed?

It says 28 in this article, but Joseph Campbell says 25. On the web there seem to be more votes for 25, but I cannot find an original source.

Ruling out one source: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson (my favourite historian) doesn't give the age. --Damate

Civilization before Greece and Rome by H.W.E. Saggs also doesn't say... --Damate

Citing Herodotus and [[Plutarch], Wilkinson states that the bull was killed at 25. (Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN 0500051208.)

[edit] Hieroglyphics

{{helpme}} This article is missing a heiroglyphic version of the god's name, but I'm not sure how the Wikipedia heiroglyph template works.

Wow, the talk pages for those heiroglyph templates (which should contain instructions) are just about worthless! My best suggestion is to look at other uses of the template and try to deduce what is done. The Egyptian hieroglyphics page says that this code:

{{Hiero/1cartouche|align=left|era=ok|name=[[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemy]]|nomen=<hiero>p:t-wA-l:M-i-i-s</hiero>}} yields this:

Ptolemy in hieroglyphs