It was believed that the bulls became immortal after death as Osiris Apis, shortened to Serapis in the Hellenic period.

There are ancient writings, too - Greek from the region's Hellenic period before and just after the birth of Jesus.

It contains around 1200 artifacts from the Hellenic period.

In Ancient Egypt, the city was known as Tamiat, but it became less important in the Hellenic period after the construction of Alexandria.

By the Hellenic period, the Alexandrian school made elegy its favorite and most highly developed form.

Most tombs date from the late Hellenic period, but there are also a considerable number from the Roman and early Christian periods.

By the late Hellenic period, the text of the series had become more ossified as astrology superseded extispicy as the preferred method of divination.

Hecatæus is the first known writer who thought that the Caspian flows into the circumference ocean-an idea that persisted long into the Hellenic period.

The base has two convex mouldings called torus, and from the late Hellenic period stood on a square plinth similar to the abacus.

Ceramic from the Iron Age was found in the tombs and Greek amphorae from the classical and late Hellenic period.