Sarapis
deity earth Egyptian single tradition · 2
Sarapis was a deity worshipped on Delos, mentioned in an inscription fragment found near the temple of Isis at Mount Cynthus. The deity was venerated in the same sacred precinct as Isis and other Egyptian-influenced gods.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 323 BCE
- Attested period
- -323 – 200
- Historical notes
- The earliest mention of a "Sarapis" occurs in the disputed death scene of Alexander (323 BCE).
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Osiris-Apis
- co occurs with
- Isis, Anubis, Harpocrates, Dioscuri, Ea
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Another fragment of an inscription mentions Sarapis; and as both these were nearly in the same place where Spon and Wheler found another in which Isis, Anubis, Harpocrates, and the Dioscuri were all named”
#19715 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The earliest mention of a "Sarapis" occurs in the disputed death scene of Alexander (323 BCE), but it is something of a mix-up: The unconnected Babylonian god Ea (Enki) was titled Šar Apsi, meaning 'king of the Apsu' or 'the watery deep'”
#24525 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001