Serapeion

Et serapion (eller serapium, serapeon) er i den gresk-romerske oldtidsverden en helligdom dedikert til fremfor alt guddommen Serapis, som var en synkretistisk  gresk-egyptisk guddom, som hadde opptatt i seg sterke trekk fra Hades, og guddommene Apis og Osiris.
Innen en mer strikt egyptologis forstand er det serapeion fremfor akt en underjordis nekropol der man utfører kult knyttet til Apis.
I middelhavsområdet var det en rekke slike tempeler, og man finner ruiner etter dem fremfor alt i Egypt, Italia og Tyrkia.


== Litteratur ==


=== Alexandria ===
Chuvin, Pierre, 1990 (B. A. Archer, translator). A Chronicle of the Last Pagans,(Harvard University Press). ISBN 0-674-12970-9 The incremental restrictions on "indigenous polytheism" of the governing class, chronicled from imperial edict to imperial edict.
MacMullen, Ramsay, 1984.Christianizing the Roman Empire A.D. 100-400, (Yale University Press).
Turcan, Robert, (1992) 1996. Cults of the Roman Empire  (Blackwell). A translation of Les cultes orientaux dans le monde romain.


=== Saqqara ===
Christophe, B. (2001). L'inscription dédicatoire de Khâemouaset au Sérapéum de Saqqara (Pl. V-XIII). Revue d'Égyptologie, 52, 29-55.
Ibrahim Aly Sayed, Mohamad; David M. Rohl (1988). «Apis and the Serapeum». Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum. 2: 6–26. 
Malinine, Michel (1968). Catalogue des stèles du Sérapéum de Memphis. Paris: Imprimerie nationale de France. 
Mariette, François Auguste Ferdinand (1857). Le Sérapéum de Memphis, découvert et décrit. Paris: Gide éditeur. 
Mariette, François Auguste Ferdinand (1892). Le Sérapéum de Memphis. Paris: F. Vieweg. 
Thompson, Dorothy J. (1988). Memphis under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03593-8. 
Vercoutter, Jean (1960). «The Napatan Kings and Apis Worship (Serapeum Burials of the Napatan Period)». Kush: Journal of the Sudan Antiquities Service. 8: 62–76. 
Vercoutter, Jean (1962). Textes biographiques du Sérapéum de Memphis: Contribution à l’étude des stèles votives du Sérapéum. Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion. 


=== Ostia ===
Mar, R. (1992). El serapeum ostiense y la urbanística de la ciudad. Una aproximación a su estudio. BA, 13(15), 31-51.
Bloch, H. (1959). The Serapeum of Ostia and the Brick-Stamps of 123 AD A New Landmark in the History of Roman Architecture. American Journal of Archaeology, 63(3), 225-240.
Mar, R. (2001). El santuario de Serapis en Ostia.
Mols, S. (2007). The Urban Context of the Serapeum at Ostia. Babesch, 82(1), 227-232.


=== Roma ===
Filippo Coarelli, "Iseum et Serapeum in Campo Martio; Isis Campensis", in E. M. Steinby (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (LTUR), vol. 3, 1996, pp. 107–109.
Filippo Coarelli, "I monumenti dei culti orientali a Roma", in La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero romano, Leiden, Brill, 1982, pp. 33–67. (ISBN 9004065016).
Serena Ensoli, "I santuari di Iside e Serapide a Roma e la resistenza pagana in età tardoantica" in Aurea Roma, Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2000, pp.  273-282. (ISBN 8882651266).


=== Pozzuoli ===
Charles Dubois. Cultes et dieux à Pouzzoles. Roma, 1902.
Charles Dubois. Pouzzoles Antique. Parigi, 1907.


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