Popular religion in Greco-Roman Egypt: the cult of Serapis
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v12i1p81-110Keywords:
Greco-Roman Egypt, Cultural entanglement, Popular religion, Serapis, TerracottaAbstract
Serapis was a god created by Ptolemy I Soter, first pharaoh of the Lagid dynasty (305-30 B.C.) as guardian god of the new sovereigns and the city of Alexandria. Serapis’s iconographic representation followed the pattern of the Greek deities. But it is also the result of a properly Egyptian element in the name. Based on the material culture made of terracotta, from Greco-Roman Egypt and representing Serapis, we intend to analyze the religious practices and popular religion associated with the god. We start from the hypothesis that Serapis is the result of the contact and entanglement of the Egyptian and Greek religion, the result of an environment marked by miscegenation and close cultural contact.
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