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Title: API - 1
Digital Publisher: Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Physical Publisher: Physical: Graphic Services, Texas A&M University
Date Issued: 2011-08-17
Date Created: 1962
Dimensions: 4 x 5 inches
Format Medium: Photographic negative
Type: image
Identifier: Photograph Location: Graphic Services Collection, Box 40, File 40-343
Rights: It is the users responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holders for publication of any materials. Permission must be obtained in writing prior to publication. Please contact the Cushing Memorial Library for further information
Apis cerana worker (Hym. Apidae) foraging on a flower of Chaenomeles sinensis (syn. Pseudocydonia sinensis) (Rosaceae), 26.iii.2014, Shenzen Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China.
Apis dorsata worker (Hym. Apidae), the giant asian honey bee, 28.iii.2011, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, 28.iii.2011, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.
Title: API - 2
Digital Publisher: Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Physical Publisher: Physical: Graphic Services, Texas A&M University
Date Issued: 2011-08-17
Date Created: 1962
Dimensions: 4 x 5 inches
Format Medium: Photographic negative
Type: image
Identifier: Photograph Location: Graphic Services Collection, Box 40, File 40-342
Rights: It is the users responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holders for publication of any materials. Permission must be obtained in writing prior to publication. Please contact the Cushing Memorial Library for further information
Apis mellifera worker (Hym. Apidae) foraging on Calicotome villosa (Fabaceae), 7.iii.2017, Yermasoyia Dam (close to Limassol), Cyprus, Greece.
Regno: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classe: Insecta
Ordine: Hymenoptera
Sottordine: Apocrita
Superfamiglia: Apoidea
Famiglia: Apidae
Sottofamiglia: Apinae
Tribù: Apini
Genere: Apis
Apis dorsata colony (Hym. Apidae) perched on a tree branch, 5.iv.2011, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China.
The bull sacrum signified by the djed was not the only relation Ptah had to these creatures. In his home city of Memphis, a sacred bull known as Apis was worshipped since the First Dynasty. The purported son of cow goddess Hathor, the bull was also seen as a herald of Ptah (followed by Osiris and Atum in later history).