Serapeum

Remains of the Serapeum of Alexandria
Marble bust of Serapis, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century BC

A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria. There were several such religious centers, each of which was called a serapeion/serapeum (Ancient Greek: Σεραπεῖον) or poserapi (Ancient Greek: Ποσεραπι), coming from an Egyptian name for the temple of Osiris-Apis (Ancient Egyptian: pr-Wsỉr-Ḥp, lit.'house of Osiris-Apis').[1]

  1. ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2019-09-27.