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What (who) is Serapis - definition

GRAECO-EGYPTIAN GOD

Sarapis; Serapis (mythology)

Serapis

·noun An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

Serapis

Serapis (, later form) or Sarapis (, earlier form, originally Demotic: wsjr-ḥp, "Osiris-Apis") or Sorapis ()Suda, sigma, 117 is a Graeco-Egyptian deity. The cult of Serapis was promoted during the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom"Sarapis" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis

HMS Serapis

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H.M.S. Serapis; HMS Seraphis

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Serapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Serapis

Wikipedia

Serapis

Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian deity. The cult of Serapis was promoted during the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm.

The cultus of Serapis was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings. Serapis continued to increase in popularity during the Roman Empire, often replacing Osiris as the consort of Isis in temples outside Egypt. Though Ptolemy I may have created the official cult of Serapis and endorsed him as a patron of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Alexandria, Serapis was a pre-existing syncretistic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis and also gained attributes from other deities, such as chthonic powers linked to the Greek Hades and Demeter, and with benevolence derived from associations with Dionysus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis

Examples of use of Serapis

1. Heading inland towards the theatre, the small Serapeum (Temple of Serapis) is dedicated to an earlier Egyptian god, indicating strong links with Alexandria.

2. The 27–meter–high ('0–foot) granite column is located on Alexandria‘s ancient acropolis and was originally part of the temple of Serapis.

3. It appears to be an exaltation to the God Serapis, a composite of Egyptian and Hellenistic deities, including Zeus and Helios, as part of efforts to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their Hellenic rulers.