Apis Synonyms

Now the ruins of the city, the great temple of Ptah, the dwelling of Apis, and the palaces of the kings, are traceable only by a few stones among the palm trees and fields and heaps of rubbish.

One of the chief monuments is the Serapeum or sepulchre of the Apis bulls, discovered by Mariette in 1851.

Spencer in his De legibus Hebraeorum saw in the Passover a practical protest against the Egyptian worship of Apis.

The origin of this particular form of worship can scarcely be sought in Egypt; the Apis which was worshipped there was a live bull, and image-worship was common among the Canaanites in connexion with the cult of Baal and Astarte (qq.v.).

Artaxerxes used his victory with great cruelty; he plundered the Egyptian temples and is said to have killed the Apis.