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PART I.
SITE OF THE SERAPEUM.
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author, whom I am next to quote, is more definite
CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS.
“ [of Sarapis], eredfed it on the promontory, which
“ they now call Rhacotis; where alfo was placed the
“ Temple of Sarapis ; and in the vicinity are the lands
“ annexed to the Temple.”
“ till the time of the Ptolemies, the Egyptians never offered any bloody fa-
“ crifices to their gods, but worfhipped them only with their prayers and
“ frankincenfe. But the tyranny of the Ptolemies having forced upon them
“ the worfhip of two foreign gods, that is, Saturn and Seraph, they in this
“■ worfhip firft brought in the ufe of bloody facrifices among that people.
“ However, they continued always fo averfe hereto, that they would never
“ fuffer any Temple to be built to either of thofe gods within any of the
“ walls of their cities : but wherever they were in that country, they were
“ always built without them in their suburbs.” Prideaux’s Conned!,
vol. ii- p. 11. edit. fol.
“ In that place in the suburb Rhacotis, where the Image of Serapis,
“ which Ptolemy brought from Sinope, was fet up, was afterwards built a
“ very famous Temple to that Idol, called the Serapeum, &c.” Ibid.
p. 12.
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SITE OF THE SERAPEUM.
99
author, whom I am next to quote, is more definite
CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS.
“ [of Sarapis], eredfed it on the promontory, which
“ they now call Rhacotis; where alfo was placed the
“ Temple of Sarapis ; and in the vicinity are the lands
“ annexed to the Temple.”
“ till the time of the Ptolemies, the Egyptians never offered any bloody fa-
“ crifices to their gods, but worfhipped them only with their prayers and
“ frankincenfe. But the tyranny of the Ptolemies having forced upon them
“ the worfhip of two foreign gods, that is, Saturn and Seraph, they in this
“■ worfhip firft brought in the ufe of bloody facrifices among that people.
“ However, they continued always fo averfe hereto, that they would never
“ fuffer any Temple to be built to either of thofe gods within any of the
“ walls of their cities : but wherever they were in that country, they were
“ always built without them in their suburbs.” Prideaux’s Conned!,
vol. ii- p. 11. edit. fol.
“ In that place in the suburb Rhacotis, where the Image of Serapis,
“ which Ptolemy brought from Sinope, was fet up, was afterwards built a
“ very famous Temple to that Idol, called the Serapeum, &c.” Ibid.
p. 12.
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