Road station
Serapeum
Serapeum stands on its own on the map, a small drawing of a house set apart from the road lines, so it probably marks a building, most likely the sanctuary itself, rather than a staging post. The name means a shrine of Serapis. The Greeks borrowed it from the famous sanctuary at Memphis where the sacred Apis bulls were buried, and applied it to many cult sites of Osiris across Egypt. The Tabula shows three such places in the Nile Delta, and this one cannot be located with certainty. One lay on the Isthmus of Suez, where ruins long taken for it turned out to be a memorial stone of the Persian king Darius celebrating his canal to the Red Sea.