Osiris in Greco-Roman Time

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.