Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Temple of Isis: Sacrarium Frescoes
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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 Frescoes
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Alternate Title:
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Tempio di Iside Frescos
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Image View:
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Fresco of a lion (inv. 8564)
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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)
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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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Subjects:
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animal; deities; Egypt--Religion; Roman Empire; inner shrine; lions
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Description:
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The Temple of Isis (VIII.7.28) is a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. This small and almost intact temple was among one of the first discoveries during the excavation of Pompeii in 1764. The temple was decorated with paintings in a Greco-Roman style with a number of Egyptianizing elements. The followers of Isis in Pompeii formed one of the largest communities of her worshippers in the first century CE. 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: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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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-S-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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