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SerapisAncient Graeco-Egyptian god, a combination of Apis, the bull of Memphis who carried the dead, and Osiris, ruler of the underworld. Invented by Ptolemy I to unify his Greek and Egyptian subjects, he became the official deity of the kingdom replacing Osiris. He was worshipped in Greek at the Serapeum, a Greek-style temple and statue in Alexandria, and was mainly regarded as a healer of the sick.
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