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Serapia
The Serapia or Sarapia was a Roman Imperial religious festival devoted to the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis. It is found as an official holiday on April 25 as late as the Calendar of Filocalus in 354 AD. In farmers' almanacs ''(menologia rustica)'' dating to the first half of the 1st century, the day was a ''sacrum'' or rite for Serapis along with Isis Pharia,〔Michele Renee Salzman, ''On Roman Time: The Codex Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity'' (University of California Press, 1990), pp. 124, 170–171.〕 "Isis of the Lighthouse ''(Pharos)'' of Alexandria".〔Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, ''Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998), vol. 2, p. 67.〕
Serapis was incorporated into the Imperial cult of Rome because of his importance as a city god of Alexandria. Under the epithets ''Dominus'' ("Master, Lord"), ''Magnus'' ("the Great") and ''Invictus'' ("Invincible"), he was cultivated as a deity of success and victory in conjunction with Sol/Helios, Jupiter/Zeus, and Neptune.〔Salzman, ''On Roman Time,'' p. 171.〕
Papyri document the celebration of the Egyptian Serapia along the Nile as late as 315. One records payments to those performing in the ceremonies at Oxyrhynchus during the late 3rd century,〔David Frankfurter, ''Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance'' (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 56–57, with citations of the papyri in note 56.〕 including a comedian, two "Homerists", dancers, and athletes.〔Frankfurter, ''Religion in Roman Egypt,'' p. 58.〕 A "dog-headed one" ''(kynopou)'' may be a priest wearing a mask of Anubis. Processions for Egyptian deities at Rome seem to have included masked participants.〔Frankfurter, ''Religion in Roman Egypt,'' p. 57.〕 Among the Greeks and Romans, Serapis was sometimes identified with the underworld ruler Pluto, and Anubis with Cerberus.〔Eleni Manolaraki, ''Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus'' (Walter de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 200–201.〕 In addition to his payment from the festival organizers, the ''kynopou'' was to receive welcome gifts ''(xenia)'' from people along the processional route, perhaps to obtain reciprocal hospitality in the afterlife. For Egyptian observers, the presence of Anubis would have affirmed the connection of the Hellenistic Serapis to the traditional Egyptian god Osiris.〔Frankfurter, ''Religion in Roman Egypt'', pp. 58–59.〕
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