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Title: The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
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Publisher: London : T. Cook
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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s coloured red and green, probably to represent the colours of the water ofthe Nile immediately before and just after the beginning ofthe inundation. Serapis, i.e., Osiris-Apis, jiix ^^, was a god intro-duced into Egypt during the reign of the Ptolemies;he is represented with the head of a bull wearing a disk anduraeus. He is said to be the second son of Ptah. Theworship of Apis at Memphis goes back to the earliest times ;the Serapeum, discovered there by M. Mariette, containedthe tombs of Apis bulls from the time of Amenophis III.(about B.C. 1550) down to the time of the Roman Empire.See page 244. * the Lagids, as well as the Seleucids, were careful of dis-turbing the foundations of the old religion of the country ; they introduced the Greek god of the lower world, Pluto, into the native worship, under the hitherto little mentioned name of theEgyptian god Serapis, and then gradually transferred to this the oldOsiris worship. (Mommsen, Provinces of the Roman Empire^ Vol. IT.,p. 265.)
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ii8LOWER EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA. Alexandria was founded B.C. 332 by Alexander the Great,who began to build his city on the little town of Rakoti,just opposite to the island of Pharos. King Ptolemy I. Sotermade this city his capital: and having founded the famouslibrary and museum, he tried to induce the most learnedmen of his day to live there. His son and successor PtolemyII. Philadelphus, continued the wise policy of his father, andAlexandria became famous as a seat of learning. The keeperof the museum during the reign of Ptolemy III. Euergetes I.was Aristophanes of Byzantium. During the siege ofthe city by the Romans in the time of Caesar, B.C. 48,the library of the museum was burnt; but Antony after-wards gave Cleopatra a large collection of manuscriptswhich formedthe nucleus of a second library.* In the earlycenturies of our era the people of Alexandria quarrelledperpetually among themselves ,t the subjects of dispute * This collection numbered 200,000 MSS., and formed the famousPerga

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