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11/20/2020, 10:29 PM Mike C serapis added (from user-submitted name 194007)
5/2/2014, 5:28 PM Ora

Gender Masculine
Scripts Σέραπις(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

From a compound of Asar, the Egyptian form of Osiris, and Apis, the sacred bull of the Egyptians. This was the name of a syncretic Greco-Egyptian god, apparently promoted by Ptolemy I Soter in the 3rd-century BC in an attempt to unite the native Egyptians and the Greeks in the Ptolemaic Kingdom.