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Serapeum logo #21000 A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria. There were several such religious centers, each of which was a serapeion (Σεραπεῖον) or, in its Latinized f...
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Serapeum

Serapeum logo #21003either of two temples of ancient Egypt, dedicated to the worship of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis (Sarapis). The original elaborate temple of that ... [5 related articles]
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Serapeum logo #21271The burial place of the Apis bulls at Sakkara.
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