Cast Bronze
59 × 84 × 56 cm
Serapis was a syncretic deity invented under the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt to unite Greek and Egyptian religious traditions, combining attributes of Zeus, Osiris, and Apis into a single god of healing, the afterlife, and abundance. The reclining feline form — both muscular and composed, thoroughly at ease in its own authority — embodies the confident synthesis of a god designed to speak to multiple worlds at once.
Cast Bronze
59 × 84 × 56 cm
Serapis was a syncretic deity invented under the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt to unite Greek and Egyptian religious traditions, combining attributes of Zeus, Osiris, and Apis into a single god of healing, the afterlife, and abundance. The reclining feline form — both muscular and composed, thoroughly at ease in its own authority — embodies the confident synthesis of a god designed to speak to multiple worlds at once.
