Apis
a bull to which divine honors containing extensive walks and courts regarded him as a symbol of Osiris. At were paid by the ancient Egyptians, who upon by a large train of priests, who lar. He was not suffered to live beyond 25 looked upon his every movement as oracuyears, being secretly killed by the priests and thrown into a sacred well. Another bull, characterized by certain marks, as a black color, a triangle of white on the forehead, a white cresent-shaped spot on the right side, etc., was selected in his place. His bi brated, and his death was a season of forehead, a white cresent-shaped spot on a black color, a triangle of white on the bull, characterized by certain marks, as birthday was annually celebalmed in asphaltum. sal sarcophagus of alabaster, which is now in the British Museum, and in the same apartment the body of a bull, emnow in the British Museum, and in the