Serapeum

American  

[ser-uh-pee-uhm] / ˌsɛr əˈpi əm /

noun

• Serapeums,
  plural
• Serapea
  plural

1. a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Serapea
  plural
• Serapeums
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Serapeum

1835–45; < Late Latin Serāpēum < Greek Serāpeîon

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Serapeum

But they had not taken careful observations of the British positions, and the carefully masked Territorial battery between Tussum and Serapeum was not discovered.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

This he kindly had moved for me, and on it I saw the name of the Serapeum of the Saite nome, Hat-biti, again with the cartouche of Necho.

From El Kab by James Edward Quibell

Note.—I stopped for five hours at Kafr-es-Zaiat on the railway journey from Alexandria to Cairo to examine a site, which may be the Serapeum of the Saite nome.

From El Kab by James Edward Quibell

Not far away was the Serapeum, or Temple of Serapis, the Goddess of Life, around which were centred the biological sciences, and close by was the medical school.

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh

At high noon the third day, on the summit of the Serapeum in Egyptian Rhacotis, there appeared a slender figure in the burnoose of an Arab.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

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