Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Sycamore Statue of Serapis from ancient Theadelphia [Batn Ihrit], ca. 300-100 BCE.
[source, a Twitter account, doesn’t exist anymore https://twitter.com/greekhistorypod/status/1271666710593130496]
“Our small wooden statuette of the god Serapis was found at Kasr el Harit, a small town near the Fayum in Egypt. The Fayum is a region located west of the Nile River and south of modern-day Cairo. Kasr el Harit was known as Theadelphia by the early Roman period in Egypt, and is the same site that an exquisite over-life-size wooden statue of Serapis on display in Sunken Cities was found.”
An article by Erin Peters https://carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory
Thanks to dr Nina Willburger for sharing this article https://twitter.com/DrNWillburger
- The Development of Cultic Worship in Ptolemaic Alexandria: A Case Study of Isis and Serapis; Rebecca Neill https://www.academia.edu
- Alexandria and Alexandrianism http://docplayer.net/52209030-Alexandria-and-alexandrianism.html
- The context of the Khirbet et-Tannur Zodiac, Jordan https://ora.ox.ac.uk