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Chapter 7 - The Sword and the Patera

Zeus Helios Great Sarapis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2024

By
Laurent Bricault
Edited by
Corinne Bonnet
Translated by
Ralph Häussler
Preface by
Ian Rutherford
Corinne Bonnet
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Ian Rutherford
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Summary

The first occurrences of the onomastic formula ‘Zeus Helios great Sarapis’ belongs to the reign of Trajan. Appearing in the military and economic context of the quarries of the Egyptian eastern desert, this divine name associates, in a single henotheistic entity, the great gods of Egypt (Amon-Ra-Helios), the Greco-Roman world (Zeus-Iuppiter) and Alexandria (Sarapis), giving pre-eminence to the latter. The iconographic translation of this theological evolution can be found in the provincial coinage of Alexandria during the Antonine period.

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ZeusHeliosSarapisAmonAntonine periodhenotheismsyntagmaiconography
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The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions , pp. 129 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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