Gold statuette of Zeus Serapis, Mid-Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Gold, H.: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Gold and Silver, Serapis was essentially a construct of the Ptolemaic Greek rulers of Egypt, a conflation of the local gods Osiris and Apis. Although gradually subsumed into the all-pervading cult of Isis, Serapis was worshipped throughout the Roman world in the guise of Zeus, ruler of the heavens, or that of Hades, god of the Underworld
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