Serapeum
A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tomb
- Description: temple dedicated to the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis
- Also known as: “Apis Tombs”, “Sarapeion”, “serapeion”, and “serapeum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Abusir and Tombs of 3rd Dynasty.
Abusir
Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abusir is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality on the desert plateau 10 km south of Giza and 8 km north of Saqqara. About 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, Abusir is the site of a compact pyramid field, with pyramids and funerary temples dating mainly from the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
Tombs of 3rd Dynasty
The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Other dynasties of the Old Kingdom include the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth. The capital during the period of the Old Kingdom was at Memphis.Pyramid of Djoser
The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid of Horus Netjerikhet, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of Memphis. Pyramid of Djoser is situated 690 metres southeast of Serapeum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saqqara and Mit Rahinah.
Saqqara
Saqqara is the name given both to a village 32 km to the south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo and to the extensive ancient necropolis on the plateau above the Nile Valley, the location of tombs and pyramids dating to the Predynastic, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Periods of ancient Egyptian history.
Mit Rahinah
Village
Photo: EliziR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mit Rahinah is a village, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Serapeum.
Al-Hawamidyah
Town
El Hawamdeya is a city in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. Successive census results indicate a considerable steady rise in its population: 73,298 in 1986, 91,770 in 1996, 109,314 in 2006, 149,567 in 2018 and 158,278 in 2023. Al-Hawamidyah is situated 6 km east of Serapeum.
Serapeum
- Categories: temple, sanctuary, and burial
- Location: Ismailia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Serapeum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Serapeum”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεραπεῖον”
- Arabic: “السيرابيوم”
- Bulgarian: “Серапеум”
- Catalan: “serapèon”
- Catalan: “serapeu”
- Catalan: “Serapeu”
- Chinese: “亚力山大港塞拉比尤姆神庙”
- Chinese: “亞力山大港塞拉比尤姆神廟”
- Chinese: “塞拉比尤姆”
- Chinese: “塞拉潘”
- Chinese: “塞拉皮雍”
- Dutch: “serapeum”
- Dutch: “Serapeum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيرابيوم”
- Esperanto: “Serapeum”
- Esperanto: “Temeplo de Serapo”
- Finnish: “Serapeion”
- Finnish: “Serapeum”
- French: “serapeion”
- French: “serapeum”
- French: “sérapéum”
- French: “Sérapéum”
- Galician: “Serapeo”
- German: “Serapeum”
- Greek: “Σεραπείο”
- Hebrew: “סרפאום”
- Hungarian: “szerapeion”
- Hungarian: “szerapeum”
- Hungarian: “Szerapeum”
- Indonesian: “Serapeion”
- Italian: “serapeo”
- Italian: “Serapeo”
- Japanese: “セラペウム”
- Latin: “serapeum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Serapeion”
- Norwegian: “Serapeion”
- Persian: “سراپیوم”
- Polish: “Serapejon”
- Portuguese: “Serapeu”
- Russian: “Серапеум”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Serapeum”
- Slovenian: “serapeion”
- Slovenian: “serapej”
- Slovenian: “serapeum”
- Slovenian: “Serapeum”
- Spanish: “serapeum”
- Spanish: “Serapeum”
- Turkish: “serapeum”
- Ukrainian: “Серапеум”
- Wu Chinese: “撒帕轮神庙”
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