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Serapis, the new
shapeof Osiris in
Greco-Roman time |
Finally, in Egypt, the Hellenic pharaohs decided to raise a deity that would be acceptable to both the local Egyptian population, and the influx of Hellenic visitors, to bring the two aggroup together, rather than allow a source of rising to grow. Thus
Osiris was identified explicitly with Apis, real an aspect of Ptah, who had already been discovered as Osiris by this point, and a syncretism of the 2 was created, famous as
Serapis, and showed as a standard Greek god.
