He was introduced in the 3rd century BCE as a state god for both Greeks and Egyptians, and was believed to be a human manifestation of the sacred dead bull that symbolized Osiris.
His cult waned with the ascendancy of Isis, and the destruction of his temple in Alexandria in the 4th century CE marked the virtual end of paganism in the Roman Empire. He was introduced in the 3rd century BCE as a state god for both Greeks and Egyptians, and was believed to be a human manifestation of the sacred dead bull that symbolized Osiris. Represented as a god of fertility and medicine and ruler of the dead in Tartarus, FTP, identify this Greco- Egyptian deity that manifested Apis and shares his name with a famous ship that was defeated by the Bonhomme Richard.
His cult waned with the ascendancy of Isis, and the destruction of his temple in Alexandria in the 4th century CE marked the virtual end of paganism in the Roman Empire.
{Serapis}