| 1. Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 613 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, and isis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 208 |
| 2. Plautus, Menaechmi, 987 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, and isis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 208 |
| 3. Plautus, Casina, 825, 644 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 208 |
| 4. Propertius, Elegies, 3.3.55 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, burial of Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 331 |
| 5. Tibullus, Elegies, 1.7.45 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, burial of Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 331 |
6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.17.4, 1.85.5, 17.50 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, burial of •apis, and sarapis, and isis •apis, and sarapis, and epaphus Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 220, 221, 331 | 1.17.4. And it was Apollo, they say, who discovered the laurel, a garland of which all men place about the head of this god above all others. The discovery of ivy is also attributed to Osiris by the Egyptians and made sacred to this god, just as the Greeks also do in the case of Dionysus. 1.85.5. but some say that when Osiris died at the hands of Typhon Isis collected the members of his body and put them in an ox (bous), made of wood covered over with fine linen, and because of this the city was called Bousiris. Many other stories are told about the Apis, but we feel that it would be a long task to recount all the details regarding them. 17.50. 1. The land where this temple lies is surrounded by a sandy desert and waterless waste, destitute of anything good for man. The oasis is fifty furlongs in length and breadth and is watered by many fine springs, so that it is covered with all sorts of trees, especially those valued for their fruit. It has a moderate climate like our spring and, surrounded as it is by very hot regions, alone furnishes to its people a contrasting mildness of temperature.,2. It is said that the sanctuary was built by Danaüs the Egyptian. The land, which is sacred to the god, is occupied on the south and west by Ethiopians, and on the north by the Libyans, a nomadic people, and the soâcalled Nasamonians who reach on into the interior.,3. All the people of Ammon dwell in villages. In the midst of their country there is a fortress secured by triple walls. The innermost circuit encloses the palace of the ancient rulers; the next, the women's court, the dwellings of the children, women, and relatives, and the guardrooms of the scouts, as well as the sanctuary of the god and the sacred spring, from the waters of which offerings addressed to the god take on holiness; the outer circuit surrounds the barracks of the king's guards and the guardrooms of those who protect the person of the ruler.,4. Outside of the fortress at no great distance there is another temple of Ammon shaded by many large trees, and near this is the spring which is called the Spring of the Sun from its behaviour. Its waters change in temperature oddly in accordance with the times of day.,5. At sunrise it sends forth a warm stream, but as the day advances it grows cooler proportionally with the passage of the hours, until under the noonday heat it reaches the extreme degree of cold. Then again in the same proportion it grows warmer toward evening and as the night advances it continues to heat up until midnight when again the trend is reversed, and at daybreak once more the waters have returned to their original temperature.,6. The image of the god is encrusted with emeralds and other precious stones, and answers those who consult the oracle in a quite peculiar fashion. It is carried about upon a golden boat by eighty priests, and these, with the god on their shoulders, go without their own volition wherever the god directs their path.,7. A multitude of girls and women follows them singing hymns as they go and praising the god in a traditional hymn. |
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| 7. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.30.111 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 403 |
8. Plutarch, On Isis And Osiris, 33, 35-37, 12 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 331 | 12. Here follows the story related in the briefest possible words with the omission of everything that is merely unprofitable or superfluous: They say that the Sun, when lie became aware of Rhea’s intercourse with Cronus, Cf. Moralia , 429 f; Diodorus, i. 13. 4; Eusebius, Praeparatio Evang. ii. 1. 1-32. invoked a curse upon her that she should not give birth to a child in any month or any year; but Hermes, being enamoured of the goddess, consorted with her. Later, playing at draughts with the moon, he won from her the seventieth part of each of her periods of illumination, Plutarch evidently does not reckon the ἕνη καὶ νέα (the day when the old moon changed to the new) as a period of illumination, since the light given by the moon at that time is practically negligible. An intimation of this is given in his Life of Solon , chap. xxv. (92 c). Cf. also Plato, Cratylus , 409 b, and the scholium on Aristophanes’ Clouds , 1186. One seventieth of 12 lunar months of 29 days each (348 days) is very nearly five days. and from all the winnings he composed five days, and intercalated them as an addition to the three hundred and sixty days. The Egyptians even now call these five days intercalated Cf. Herodotus, ii. 4. and celebrate them as the birthdays of the gods. They relate that on the first of these days Osiris was born, and at the hour of his birth a voice issued forth saying, The Lord of All advances to the light. But some relate that a certain Pamyles, What is known about Pamyles (or Paamyles or Pammyles), a Priapean god of the Egyptians, may be found in Kock, Com. Att. Frag. ii. p. 289. Cf. also 365 b, infra . while he was drawing water in Thebes, heard a voice issuing from the shrine of Zeus, which bade him proclaim with a loud voice that a mighty and beneficent king, Osiris, had been born; and for this Cronus entrusted to him the child Osiris, which he brought up. It is in his honour that the festival of Pamylia is celebrated, a festival which resembles the phallic processions. On the second of these days Ar ueris was born whom they call Apollo, and some call him also the elder Horus. On the third day Typhon was born, but not in due season or manner, but with a blow he broke through his mother s side and leapt forth. On the fourth day Isis was born in the regions that are ever moist The meaning is doubtful, but Isis as the goddess of vegetation, of the Nile, and of the sea, might very naturally be associated with moisture. ; and on the fifth Nephthys, to whom they give the name of Finality Cf. 366 b and 375 b, infra . and the name of Aphroditê, and some also the name of Victory. There is also a tradition that Osiris and Arueris were sprung from the Sun, Isis from Hermes, Cf. 352 a, supra . and Typhon and Nephthys from Cronus. For this reason the kings considered the third of the intercalated days as inauspicious, and transacted no business on that day, nor did they give any attention to their bodies until nightfall. They relate, moreover, that Nephthys became the wife of Typhon Cf. 375 b, infra . ; but Isis and Osiris were enamoured of each other Cf. 373 b, infra . and consorted together in the darkness of the womb before their birth. Some say that Arueris came from this union and was called the elder Horus by the Egyptians, but Apollo by the Greeks. |
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| 9. New Testament, 2 Timothy, 13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 330, 405 |
| 10. New Testament, Hebrews, 9, 1, 10, 14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan nan nan |
| 11. Apuleius, Florida, 7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 188 |
| 12. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.12, 2.28, 3.8, 3.12, 3.23, 4.33, 5.2, 6.7, 6.22, 7.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis •apis, and sarapis, burial of Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 188, 331, 342 |
| 13. Alciphron, Letters, 4.18-4.19 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 403 |
| 14. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.20.16-1.20.17 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 404 |
| 15. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.20.16-1.20.17 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 404 |
| 16. Papyri, P.Ups.8, 1.1 Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 405 |
| 17. Julianus The Theurgist, Oracula Chaldaica, 2.153 Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, and isis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 220 |
| 18. Epigraphy, I.Alexptol, 2, 5, 1 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 330 |
| 19. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q450, 285.2 Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 188 |
| 20. Papyri, P.Eleph., 15.1803 Tagged with subjects: •osiris, forerunner (with apis) of osorapis and sarapis Found in books: Renberg (2017) 403 |
21. Strabo, Geography, 17.1.31 Tagged with subjects: •apis, and sarapis, and isis Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 220 | 17.1.31. Memphis itself also, the residence of the kings of Egypt, is near, being only three schoeni distant from the Delta. It contains temples, among which is that of Apis, who is the same as Osiris. Here the ox Apis is kept in a sort of sanctuary, and is held, as I have said, to be a god. The forehead and some other small parts of its body are white; the other parts are black. By these marks the fitness of the successor is always determined, when the animal to which they pay these honours dies. In front of the sanctuary is a court, in which there is another sanctuary for the dam of Apis. . Into this court the Apis is let loose at times, particularly for the purpose of exhibiting him to strangers. He is seen through a door in the sanctuary, and he is permitted to be seen also out of it. After he has frisked about a little in the court, he is taken back to his own stall.The temple of Apis is near the Hephaesteium (or temple of Vulcan); the Hephaesteium itself is very sumptuously constructed, both as regards the size of the naos and in other respects. In front of the Dromos is a colossal figure consisting of a single stone. It is usual to celebrate bull-fights in this Dromos; the bulls are bred expressly for this purpose, like horses. They are let loose, and fight with one another, the conqueror receiving a prize.At Memphis also there is a temple of Venus, who is accounted a Grecian deity. But some say that it is a temple dedicated to Selene, or the moon. |
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