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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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| My friend, Private Mulvaney, who went home in the Serapis, time-expired, not very long ago, has come back to India as a civilian Not BABILON, Nor great ALCAIRO such magnificence Equal'd in all thir glories, to inshrine BELUS or SERAPIS thir Gods, or seat Thir Kings, when AEGYPT with ASSYRIA strove In wealth and luxurie. |
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