It's no coincidence that the city's patron god was Serapis, a syncretic deity representing the fusion of Greek and Egyptian paganism. Likewise, the city's later fall to the Arab conqueror ‘Amr ...

including a marble bust of Jupiter Serapis (1st-2nd century AD), a god of fertility from Ancient Egyptian tradition that made his way into Greek and Roman culture. An alabaster canopic jar—used ...

With many local and national gods, Egyptian religion was a natural response to the mysteries of the universe and reflected the worries of everyday life in the Ancient World. Over the last thousand ...

On the Egyptian side are Anubis, the god of death and the afterlife, Isis, goddess of fertility and motherhood, and potentially Serapis, a Graeco-Egyptian deity of the sun used to unite Greeks and ...