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"Sarapis" (misspelled, of course, for "Serapis") was written on the breast of one of the finest of these portrait-mummies, both mummy and portrait being now in the national Egyptian collection.
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LEHMANN-HAUPT, C.F. Article "Sarapis" (in Roscher's Lexikon).
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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There was a major diaspora of Jews, and Egyptian cults of Sarapis and Isis, as well as Babylonian astrology, gained great popularity among Greeks.
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Perdikkas said formally, for the benefit of the company, "Did you receive an oracle from Sarapis?"
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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You know, I kept vigil for him at the shrine of Sarapis.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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([Greek: Heis Zeus Sarapis]) In him all energies were centered, although the functions of Zeus, of Pluto or of Helios were especially ascribed to him.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Now the commanders were as follows: of foederati, [52] Marcellus and Cyril, of the cavalry forces, Barbatus, and of infantry Terentius and Sarapis.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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At Alexandria Hadrian found a money-loving population worshipping Christ and Sarapis almost indifferently.
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Curiously enough, all the oldest gods and goddesses of Egypt passed into absolute oblivion, with the exception of Osiris (Sarapis), Isis, Anubis the physician, and Harpokrates, the child of Osiris and Isis, and these, from being the ancestral spirits of a comparatively obscure African tribe in early dynastic times, became for several hundreds of years the principal objects of worship of some of the most cultured and intellectual nations.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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Sarapis, and identifying him with the Greek Pluto.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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