Founding a Sarapeum
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">A letter in the Zenon archive (</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>P.Cair.Zen.</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University
2006-02-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/1991 |
| Summary: | <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">A letter in the Zenon archive (</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>P.Cair.Zen.</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">59034 of 257 B.C.) urging the</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>dioiketes</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">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.</span> |
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| ISSN: | 0017-3916 2159-3159 |