Changes in Ptolemaic ritual
Changes in Ptolemaic ritual
The Ptolemaic Age of Serapis
During the time of Alexandria who began to build the capital city of Alexandria including Ptolemy in 305 BC who renovated important temples in Egypt Egyptian culture was integrated into Greek in the Ptolemaic era. One of the important rituals the Egyptian god or Greek name is Serapis combined with the Egyptian worship of Osiris. The cult of Serapis was spread by Ptolemy. The Ptolemaic Dynasty the last dynasty to rule ancient Egypt was a dynasty descended from the Macedonians by Ptolemy I. The ritual to dedicate outside the Egyptian temple of Osiris. Of the qualities from the god of the underworld the benevolence derived from the relationship with the god Dionysus, of fruits and plants fertility in festivals rituals of joy in the culture the prosperity of food and theater culture by the Greeks.
The god Sarapis was first mentioned in Alexander's death in 323 BC. He was called the king of the rivers or deep sea. Serapis was generally considered the god of the underworld and the protector of the suffering leading to the selection of Osiris in Alexander's era with the similarly named Sarapis as the family god of the Ptolemaic era. Sarapis of Babylon and the later legends of Alexander created confusion and misunderstanding in terms of Greek culture but still used the old order of gods and rituals to create faith in the period for the importance of the Greek soul. In the period of Ptolemy I-II there were rituals at important festivals symbols of fertility and resurrection from many Greek Egyptian cults.
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt . Ptolemy IV Philopator (222-205 BC).
Osiris who was similar to the life force chose a Greek-style statue with a human appearance honoring it as equal to Apis the symbol of the bull. The main god in the ancient Egyptian temple was a mediator between humans and other powerful gods. Therefore there are many sculptures of Osiris and other gods seated. It was a period of 60 years of relaxed detailing rather than the original reliefs with different blocks of imagery in the form of relief carvings decorating most of the temples during the reign of Ptolemy II and followed by another god seated on a throne. During the reign of Ptolemy II there were structural problems in the main temples and churches and the city walls began to collapse.
Head of Sarapis, 1st century BCE,
Deer statue, 332-30 BC (Hellenistic) by Greek / Ptolemaic dynasty
It was not until the reign of Ptolemy II that the construction and decoration of the temples and churches began. The decoration of the Hypostyle Hall and the west front began in the reign of Ptolemy III until 24 BC. The problem of the foundation of the original structure that was collapsing began to collapse again from the earthquake. The Persian invasion of the 26th Dynasty Nectanebo II decorated and restored the temple on the site of the old temple with dark granite. The Iseum temple of Nectanebo II and built almost all the larger temples and decorated only one important church.
Relief of Ptolemy I making an offering to Hathor / image : Thad Zajdowicz
Ptolemaic Egypt to unite the Greek and Egyptian peoples as one. The god Sarapis became popular in the 3rd century BC by order of the Greek pharaoh Ptolemy. Some of the original worship was replaced by the god Serapis. In Alexandria Ptolemaic Egypt there were renovations and additions to various rituals and temples. The ritual mixed Greek gods with fertility associated with the Nile as a god of the mysterious underworld spread throughout the Mediterranean. In the existing inscriptions All life and government to the god Osiris.
The Ptolemaic period of Alexandria before its collapse From the beginning of the cultural changes that flourished and traded in the port area before the founding of Alexandria from Thonis-Heraklion the ancient past that changed to a mix of Roman and Egyptian eras during the reign of Ptolemy there was the beginning of the end from the severe natural disasters tsunamis and earthquakes including the renovation of the city in the Alexandrian era of the Ptolemy reign.
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