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Serapeum ( in latin ) or serapeion ( in Greek ) or simply serapeo, is the name given by the ancient Romans to the temples of Serapis and especially to the built in Alexandria by Ptolemy I, the so-called Alejandria.los Serapeum Egyptologists give preference this name to the funerary monuments of the oxen Apis, among which stands out in the necropolis of Memphis, called the Serapeum of Sakkara, which was discovered in 1851 by the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette.En time of Aristides the orator ( 200 b.c. ) Egypt had forty-three serapea. Asia, Greece and Italy had equally large number. In Corinth, the cult of Serapis was attached to the Isis

  



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