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  • Chapter 7 - The Sword and the Patera

  • Edited by Corinne Bonnet, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  • Translated by Ralph Häussler
  • Preface by Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
  • Book:
    The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
    Published online:
    23 February 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2024, pp 129-156

  • 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.