Sarapis

Example sentences from the Web for sarapis

• To the Greeks, it would appear, Sarapis was the form taken by the deceased Apis bull.

  Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt |Lewis Spence

• There is also a temple of Sarapis, situated in a very sandy spot, where the sand is accumulated in masses by the wind.

  The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3) |Strabo

• This feature was very strikingly exemplified in the god Sarapis, a deity equally reverenced by the Greeks and the Egyptians.

  Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt |Lewis Spence

• The temple of Sarapis was stormed amid scenes of riot and turbulence, and the last refuge of the Egyptian faith was gone.

  Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt |Lewis Spence