{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entity_relationships", "rows": [[1456, "ENT_EGY_OSIRIS", "received_as", "ENT_SYN_SERAPIS", "high", "Serapis was deliberately created by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 286 BCE) as a syncretic fusion of Osiris and the Apis bull, supplemented with Greek attributes of Zeus, Hades, and Asclepius, to serve as a deity unifying Greek and Egyptian subjects of the new kingdom. Plutarch (De Is. ch. 28) documents the Ptolemaic invention; Tacitus (Histories 4.83) records the oracle that directed the creation. The Osirian element \u2014 resurrection, afterlife sovereignty, identification with the dead Pharaoh \u2014 is the primary Egyptian contribution to the Serapic complex. Highest-confidence Egyptian\u2192syncretic chain in this dataset.", "SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS", "reviewed", "PER_GRK_HELLENISTIC"]], "columns": ["relationship_id", "subject_entity_id", "relationship_type", "object_entity_id", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id", "review_status", "period_id"], "primary_keys": ["relationship_id"], "primary_key_values": ["1456"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8427100001426879, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}