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thumb|Remains of the Serapeum of Alexandria thumb|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 () or poserapi (), coming from an Egyptian name for the temple of Osiris-Apis ().
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- Egyptian serapea
- Alexandria
- Saqqara
- Canopus
- Serapea in Italy
- ''Regio tertia''
- Campus Martius
- Quirinal Hill
- Hadrian's Villa
- Ostia Antica
- Pozzuoli
- Serapea in Tunisia
- Serapea in Turkey
- Pergamon
- Ephesus
- Miletus
- References
- Alexandria
- Saqqara
- Ostia
- Rome
- Pozzuoli
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thumb|Remains of the Serapeum of Alexandria thumb|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 () or poserapi (), coming from an Egyptian name for the temple of Osiris-Apis ().
==Egyptian serapea== ===Alexandria=== thumb|The Catacombs beneath the Serapeum of Alexandria The Serapeum of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes. There are also signs of Harpocrates. It has been referred to as the daughter of the Library of Alexandria. It existed until the end of the fourth century AD.