In Egyptian mythology, Buchis (, )[W. Max Muller, Egyptian Mythology, Kessinger Publishing 2004, p.160] as a sacred bull that was worshipped in the region of Hermonthis.[
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Unlike the other Egyptian sacred bulls – the Apis and the Mnevis – the Buchis cult started towards the end of the pharaonic period, with the earliest known burial taking place in regnal year 14 of Nectanebo II (mid 4th century BC). However, four different bull cults dedicated to Montu were known in earlier times in Upper Egypt, and it seems that the Buchis was the result of their syncretism.[ Eventually, the Buchis bull was identified as a form of the Apis, and consequently became considered an incarnation of Osiris.
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It is uncertain when the Buchis cult disappeared. The last confirmed tomb at the Bucheum is dated to the regnal year 12 of Diocletian (circa 295 CE),[ while the latest attestation of a Buchis burial is a stela reporting its installation in regnal year 33 of Diocletian (317 AD) and its demise in regnal year 57 of the same pharaoh (more precisely on 4 November 340 AD).][M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Cambridge University Press 1998, p.28][David Frankfurter, Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance, Princeton University Press 1998, p.72][
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