Sarapis
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Osirapis · Serapis · Soroapis · the great demon
in the texts
Protrepticus
'Great demon' worshipped in Egypt, presented as a demonstrably man-made composite idol whose temple is later destroyed.
Nor did it spare the sanctuary of Sarapis in the city of the Alexandrians.
and she says that the temple of Isis and Sarapis in Egypt shall be cast down and burned:
and mixing the whole with the pigment left over from the burial of Osiris and Apis, he moulded Sarapis — whose very name hints at the partnership of the burial and the fashioning from the entombment, being compounded from Osiris and Apis, Osirapis.
Stromata
Sarapis, a syncretic Egyptian deity, whose origin is explained through two competing accounts (identification with king Apis, or the embalmed sacred bull Apis called Soroapis).
And Aristeas the Argive says that this man was surnamed Sarapis, and that this is the one whom the Egyptians worship;