Ptahemwia
Ptahemwia or Ptah-em-Wia (Ptah in the barque) was an Ancient Egyptian official who lived under king Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty, around 1250 BC. Ptahemwia had several titles, providing evidence for his positions mainly at the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramses II. These include ''king's scribe'', ''Great overseer of the cattle in the Temple of Usermaatre-Setepenre in the House of Amun'' and ''overseer of the treasury of the Temple of Million of Years of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Usermaatre-Setepenre in the House of Amun in Memphis''. Ptahemwia is known from a number of objects. In 1859 Théodule Devéria photographed the decorated doorway, later lost, of his tomb chapel at Saqqara; the names and titles of Ptahemwia are mostly still readable. Ptahemwia is also known from some other objects. There is a pyramidion found in 1860 at Saqqara showing Ptahemwia in front of different gods, inscribed with his names and titles. A statue without head was found at Abydos in 19 ...
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Pyramidion
A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the uppermost piece or capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as ''benbenet''  and associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred benben stone.Toby Wilkinson, ''The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt'', Thames & Hudson, 2005. p. 197 During Egypt's Old Kingdom, pyramidia were generally made of diorite, granite, or fine limestone, then covered in gold or electrum; during the Middle Kingdom and through the end of the pyramid-building era, they were built from granite. A pyramidion was "covered in gold leaf to reflect the rays of the sun"; during Egypt's Middle Kingdom pyramidia were often "inscribed with royal titles and religious symbols". Very few pyramidia have survived into modern times. Most of those that remain are made of polished black granite, inscribed with the name of the pyramid's owner. Four pyramidia – the world's largest collection – are h ...
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