Serapis
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serapis-184-402183
title:
Serapis
text:
Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. The cultus of Serapis was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by subsequent Ptolemaic kings. Serapis continued to increase in popularity during the Roman Empire, often replacing Osiris as t
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Graeco-Egyptian deity
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis
date created:
2006-01-01T13:07:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T05:24:57Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Serapis_Pio-Clementino_Inv689_n2.jpg","width":2350,"height":3200}
fields total:
13
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