| 释义 |
Serapeum Egyptol. and Anc. Hist.|sɛrəˈpiːəm|
Also Serapeion |-ˈaɪɒn|, Serapeium; pl. Serapeia.
[a. late L., ad. Gr. σεραπεῖον, f. σέραπις Serapis.]
A temple of Serapis; spec. the great precinct near Memphis, where the sacred Apis bulls were buried, and a temple in Alexandria.
1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 260/2 He had temples (Serapeia) in several parts of Egypt. 1847J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art 243 The Serapeum was at the same time a sanatory institution. 1877A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile iv. 86 According to one of these precious Serapeum tablets, the wounded bull did not die till the fourth year of the reign of Darius. 1927Tarn & Griffith Hellenistic Civiliz. x. 294 The Serapeum at Delos has revealed that the triad who were so to influence Hellenism were..Isis, Sarapis, and Anubis. 1928Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 13/4 It was suggested that the so-called Greek Serapeum was in truth nothing but the resting-place of the mother cows of Egyptian Apis. 1961A. H. Gardiner Egypt of Pharaohs xii. 326 Not a single inscription of Dyn. XXI was found in the Serapeum [at Memphis]. 1972P. M. Fraser Ptolemaic Alexandria I. v. 271 The Serapeum on Rhacotis Hill [in Alexandria] was within the Ptolemaic and Roman city-walls. |