Founding a Sarapeum

Authors

  • Kent J. Rigsby

Abstract

A letter in the Zenon archive (P.Cair.Zen. 59034 of 257 B.C.) urging the dioiketes Apollonius to help build a shrine of Sarapis concerns Memphis in Egypt, not a city overseas, and can be seen as an effort to give the Greeks of Memphis a cult place independent of the great Sarapeum outside of the city.

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Published

2001-03-03

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