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Serapis; Cultural Entanglement; Religious Practices.
Serapis was a deity conceived by Ptolemy I Soter, the first pharaoh of the Lagid dynasty (305-30 BC), with the purpose of being the guardian of the new sovereigns and the city of Alexandria, in Egypt. Serapis’ iconography reflected traits of Greek deities, but also incorporated distinctly Egyptian elements, such as his name. Based on material culture, this research examines how cultural interactions took place and developed in the material representation of the deity and in the cult practices associated with it. Based on this investigation, we argue that Serapis emerged from the entanglement process of Egyptian and Greek cultures, a concept defined by archaeologist Phillip Stockhammer (2012). This process emerges from an environment marked by miscegenation and close cultural exchange.