The ending of Sarapis
Thus with repeated strokes he felled the smoke-grimed deity of rotten wood, which upon being thrown down burned as easily as dry wood when it was kindled. After this the head was wrenched from the neck, the bushel having been taken down, and dragged off; then the feet and other members were chopped off with axes and dragged apart with ropes attached, and piece by piece, each in a different place, the decrepit dotard was burned to ashes before the eyes of the Alexandria which had worshiped him. Last of all the torso which was left was put to the torch in the amphitheater, and that was the end of the vain superstition and ancient error of Serapis. (Rufinus, Ecclesiastical History, 11.23)
That of Isis and Sarapis in Egypt she says will be overthrown and burnt up: “Thrice wretched Isis, by Nile's streams thou stayst lone, dumb with frenzy on dark Acheron's sands.” Then lower down: “And thou, Sarapis, piled with useless stones, in wretches Egypt liest, a ruin great.” (Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen, 4.4)
Already the Egyptian Serapis has been made a Christian; while at Gaza Marnas mourns in confinement and every moment expects to see his temple overturned. (Jerome, Letter, 107)
