Serapis
Americannoun
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Also a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
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(italics) the British man-of-war captured by John Paul Jones in 1779.
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Serapis was an extraordinary deity demonstrating how astute Egypt’s Greek rulers were.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
A fusion of the Egyptian deities Osiris and Apis and the Greek deities Zeus and Helios, Serapis allowed the very different subjects of Ptolemaic Egypt to find common ground in worship.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The original Serapis banner is lost to history.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2021
Bonhomme Richard famously defeated British frigate HMS Serapis in the Battle of Flamborough Head off the U.K. coast on Sept. 23, 1779.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2018
Serapis was an amalgam of Apis, the native bull god, and Osiris, the anthropomorphic lord of the dead—an instant “designer god” fashioned by the Ptolemies to give Greeks and Egyptians a deity in common.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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