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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3358000, member: 75937&quot;]Indeed. Egyptian archaeologists find him mentioned long before Ptolemy in artifacts from Rhacotis and Memphis and construed his name as a compound of Osirus and that of his earthly incarnation, the bull Apis. Other traditions connect Serapis with Seleucia in Cappadocia or with Babylon. It may be that a false etymology, confounding a hill near Memphis with the name of Sinope, was the source of the tale in Tacitus.</p><p><br /></p><p>See Samuel Dill, &quot;Isis and Serapis in Roman Society&quot; in <i>Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, </i>pp. 561-2.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, the origin of Serapis is still a mystery and I have to acquiesce to simply acknowledging that it remains uncertain how his mythology came about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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