Editing Resheph (section)

===Greco-Roman reception===
[[File:Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 89 (from Cyprus) (cropped).jpg|thumb|The Idalion bilingual.]]
The form of Resheph worshiped on [[Cyprus]] was identified with [[Apollo]] by the [[Greeks]].{{sfn|Streck|2008|p=253}} The [[Idalion bilingual]] refers to “Resheph Mikal” ({{langx|phn|𐤓𐤔𐤐 𐤌𐤊𐤋}}) in Phoenician and Apollo Amyklos in [[Cypriot syllabary|Cypro-syllabic]] Greek, but it is not certain if a Greek epithet was adopted by Phoenicians or a Phoenician one by Greeks.{{sfn|Ulanowski|2013|p=161}} There is no evidence of this equation extending beyond said island,{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=264}} though Paolo Xella argues that [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]' mention of Apollo as the father of the Phoenician god [[Eshmun]] might be an account of a tradition which originally involved Resheph instead.{{sfn|Xella|1999|p=702}} The association between Resheph and Apollo relied on their shared portrayal as archers, affinity with diseases, and [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] functions.{{sfn|Ulanowski|2013|p=160}} Javier Teixidor in particular stressed the parallels between Resheph as a plague god who strikes his victims with arrows as attested in an inscription from [[Idalion]] with the [[Homer]]ic portrayal of Apollo (''[[Iliad]]'' {{Iliad|en|I|42|55}}).{{sfn|Teixidor|1976|p=65}} A local Cypriot deity, [[Hylates]], might have been identified with Resheph as well.{{sfn|López-Ruiz|2021|p=270}}

In the [[Greco-Roman period]] Resheph apparently ceased to be worshiped in [[Egypt]], with the only references to him including a dedication of [[Ptolemy III Euergetes]] from [[Karnak]], litanies listing many deities from ''Papyrus of Imuthes'' and ''Tebtunis Papyrus'', unlikely to reflect widespread personal cult, and possibly a small number of theophoric names whose restoration is a matter of dispute among researchers.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=108}}

It has been proposed that Arsippus, who is mentioned in the third book of [[Cicero]]'s ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' alongside Astronoe (an ordinary [[Persian language|Persian]] name, here possibly a corruption of [[Damascius|Damaskios]]’ Astronoe) as the father of one of the multiple deities named [[Aesculapius]], can be interpreted as a Latiniziation of Resheph.{{sfn|Azize|2014|pp=239-240}} However, this view is not universally accepted.{{sfn|Ulanowski|2013|p=159}}