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Serapeum

Three places called Serapeum are scattered across the Nile Delta on the Tabula, matched by three shrines of Isis, perhaps a hint that the two deities were worshipped together. This one is drawn as a small house standing on its own, with no road leading to it, so it marks a sanctuary rather than a staging post. Serapis was a Graeco-Egyptian god closely bound to Osiris and honoured alongside Isis, and a Serapeum was his temple. Where this one stood is uncertain. Older research saw in it the great temple of Serapis at Alexandria, destroyed at the end of the fourth century.

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