VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Tempio d’Iside or Temple of Isis.

Excavated 1764, 1766 and from 1781. (Strada del Tempio d’Iside 2)

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Entrance

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019.

Street frontage as on Via del Tempio d’Iside, looking south at model now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. March 2018. Exterior street frontage as on south side of Via del Tempio d’Iside, looking west.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. April 2019. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Note the well-trodden kerb from the roadway leading to the Temple steps.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking south to entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. May 2017. Left-hand part of description card in Temple. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. May 2017. Right-hand part of description card in Temple. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii, 1971. Looking south through entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. 1804. Drawing of view into entrance.

See Piranesi, F, 1804. Antiquités de la Grande Grèce: Tome II. Paris: Piranesi and Le Blanc. (plate 61).

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Engraving by Francesco La Vega of exterior of doorway with plaque above, 1851.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 894.

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VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Engraving of interior of doorway, 1851. Drawn by Francesco La Vega, engraved by C. Nolli.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 896.

Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019.

Entrance doorway on Via del Tempio d’Iside. Model now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. March 2019. Inscription to N. Popidius N. F. Celsinus, above entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. May 2006. Inscription to N. Popidius N. F. Celsinus.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Inscription in honour of Numerius Popidius Celsinus:

N(VMERIVS) POPIDIVS N(VMERII) F(ILIVS) CELSINVS

AEDEM ISIDIS TERRAE MOTV CONLAPSAM

A FVNDAMENTO P(ECVNIA) S(VA) RESTITVIT. HVNC DECVRIONES OB LIBERALITATEM

CVM ESSET ANNORVM SEXS ORDINI SVO GRATIS ADLEGERVNT.       [CIL X 846]

Numerius Popidius Celsinus, son of Numerius, at his own expense restored from its foundations the Temple of Isis, which had collapsed in the earthquake.

Because of his generosity, although he was six years old, the councillors enrolled him into their number without fee.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3765.

See Cooley, A.E. and M.G.L., 2004, Pompeii, A Sourcebook, London and New York, Routledge, p. 31, no. C5.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. 2010. Limestone stele with twenty lines of hieroglyphs.

These relate to the last twenty years of Pharaonic rule leading up to Egypt being conquered by Alexander the Great.

Found on a pillar placed at the entrance to the temple.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 1035.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. April 2019. Limestone stele with twenty lines of hieroglyphs. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 1035.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019. Museum card with details of Limestone stele with twenty lines of hieroglyphs. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019.

Upper 15 of the lines of hieroglyphs from the Limestone stele. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019.

Lower lines of hieroglyphs from the Limestone stele. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019. Detail of some of the hieroglyphs from the Limestone stele. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. June 2019. Detail of some of the hieroglyphs from the Limestone stele. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Model of temple in Naples Museum. Photo courtesy of Giampiero Bevagna.

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Looking west, across cork model of temple made by Giovanni Altieri in 1784.

Formerly in Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, inventory number NM Drh Sk 281. Now deaccessioned.

Photo by Margareta Sjöblom. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden.

See http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/4072359

VIII.7.28 Pompeii. Looking east, across model of temple made by Giovanni Altieri in 1784.

Formerly in Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, inventory number NM Drh Sk 281. Now deaccessioned.

Photo by Margareta Sjöblom. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden.

See http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/4072359

See Kockel V., 2004. Towns and Tombs: Three-Dimensional Documentation of Archaeological Sites in The Kingdom of Naples in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, fig. 1.

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