SERAPIS TEMPLE

It is one of the oldest in the city (th century. ). He was dedicated to the Egyptian deity who was awarded the gift of healing the sick. The cult of Sérapis dates from Hellenistic times. It is the first king Lagide, Ptolemy I, who would have set the cult and characteristics of the god Sérapis, the syncretic deity embodying the characteristics of the Egyptian god Osiris and of Greek gods like Asclépios, God of Medicine. Subsequently, his cult developed in the Roman world.