CHAPTER XXV

. THE TEMPLE OF ISIS

_The worship of Isis outside of Egypt_: LAFAYE, Histoire du culte des divinites d'Alexandrie, Serapis, Isis, Harpocrate et Anubis, hors de l'Egypte, depuis les origines jusqu'a la naissance de l'ecole neo-Platonicienne (Paris, 1883); for the literature relating to the worship of Isis in Italy, see ROSCHER, Ausfuehrliches Lexikon der griechischen und roemischen Mythologie, vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 398-412.

_Excavation of the temple_ (December 22, 1764, to September 27, 1766): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 164-194.

_Inscriptions relating to the temple_: PIRANESI (see below), pl. 70-72; C. I. L. X. 846-851. _Inscription found at Puteoli_ [p. 169]: C. I. L. I. 577, X. 1781; WIEGAND, Die puteolanische Bauinschrift sachlich erlaeutert, Jahrbuecher fuer classische Philologie, Supplementband 20 (1894), pp. 659-778. An interesting graffito relating to the worship of Isis was found in the house of the Silver Wedding in 1892; see Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), p. 57, no. 7 (cf. also DE ROSSI, Roma sotterranea, vol. 2, pp. 14-15).

_Remains, restoration_: SOGLIANO, Aedis Isidis Pompeiana, not yet published [see Preface, p. vi.]; PIRANESI, Antiquites de Pompei (designs made about 1788), vol. 2 (= vol. 26 of Opera, in 27 vols.), pl. 59-72; MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 4, p. 24, pl. 7-11; NICCOLINI, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (Naples, 1854-1895), vol. 1, pt. 3, end (12 pl.); NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 170-175, 346-349; MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, p. 23; WEICHARDT, Pompeji vor der Zerstoerung, pp. 103-113.

_Statues_--_Bacchus_ [p. 170]: Museo Borb., vol. 9, pl. 11: ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 6, pl. 21. _Isis_ [p. 176]: Museo Borb., vol. 14, pl. 35. _Herm of Sorex_ [p. 176], PIRANESI, Antiquites de Pompei, vol. 2. pl. 72. _The statue of Venus has disappeared_: OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, note 208, p. 649.

_Paintings_ [pp. 172 _et seq._]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1-6, 135, 138, 391 _b_, 962, 1013, 1096-99, 1103, 1271, 1292, 1571, 1576-1577. _Paintings from Herculaneum_ [p. 178]: ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 2, pl. 68, 69; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1111, 1112.

_A left hand carried in procession in honor of Isis_ [p. 173]: Apul. Metam. XI. X.

_Service described by Apuleius_ [p. 176]: Metam. XI. XX. While the people were praying the priest made a circuit of the altars, which were evidently, as at Pompeii, distributed about the temple in the court.

_Perseus rescuing Andromeda_ [p. 179]: that the male figure is intended to represent Perseus and not Hermes is certain from the description of the figure when first excavated--"alla cinta tiene una testa alata" (FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 171). All trace of the Medusa head has now disappeared.

_Initiation into the mysteries of Isis_ [p. 182]: Apul. Metam. XI. XXI, XXIII.

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