Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Temple of Isis: Sacrarium; Discovery of Boat with Coffin of Osiris (east wall)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Temple of Isis: Sacrarium; Discovery of Boat with Coffin of Osiris (east wall)
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Alternate Title:
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Tempio di Iside Frescos
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Image View:
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Detail, large bust of a river god
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient))
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 8929
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo 19
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GPS:
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+40.853378+14.250486
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Date:
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ca. 62-79 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Fourth Style; Greco-Roman; Imperial (Roman)
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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221 cm (height) x 289 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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allegory; animal; deities; Egypt--Religion; Roman Empire; Osiris; Isis
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Description:
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Fresco from the Temple of Isis (VIII.7.28) in Pompeii depicting the discovery of the boat with the coffin of Osiris, on the east wall of Sacrarium (an inner room meant for storing cult objects). In between the busts of two river gods there are two reed boats, on the left of which Isis is trolling with a rope the right boat on which there is a square case with a falcon painted on it. Below the boat scene, two serpents are moving towards a wicker basket with a conical lid which has a crescent moon symbol on it. The cult of Isis was part of the syncretic tendencies of religion in the Greco-Roman world of late antiquity; the Romans having acquired it from the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; http://cir.campania.beniculturali.it/museoarcheologiconazionale)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-NAM-TI-DB-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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