The name Pataikos or Pataikoi had been mentioned by Herodut (111,37,) when he described the acts of Cambyses in Egypt, he said "Thus too he (Cambyses) entered the temple of Hephaistos (Ptah ) and made much mordery of the image there. This image of Hephaistos is most like to the Phoenician Pataici (as the Greek called him) which the Phoenician carry on the prows of their triremes, I will describe it for him who has not seen their figures, it is in the likeness of a dwarf" Hence most of the Egyptologists and Historians have agreed that Palaikos is a representation of the God Ptah, and he has a form of a dwarf, and the name Pataikos was derived from the God's name.