Note 254 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES

Asklepios or Esculapius was one of the gods absorbed by Serapis. It is most probable that the great statue by Bryaxis in the Alexandrian Serapeum was originally an Asklepios. See Bouché-Leclercq, Rev. de l’Hist. des Rel. 1902, pp. 26, 27, 28. There seems also to have been a chapel to him in the Greek Serapeum at Memphis. See Brunet de Presle, “Le Sérapéum de Memphis,” Paris, 1865, pp. 261-263. Cf. Forshall, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, 1839, p. 33, and note 1 p. 80, infra.