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Pompeii: Temple of Isis, painting of Io at Canopus
Pompeii: Temple of Isis painting of Io at Canopus (Naples Mus.Arch.; photo: Athena Review)
This
4th style fresco painting from The Temple of Isis at Pompeii, now
in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, shows a scene of
the myth of Io at Canopus (Ekklesiasterion).
Io is carried by a river god in Egypt, where she is greeted by Isis at her sanctuary at Canopus on the Nile Delta. Isis has a crocodile beneath her feet and holds a cobra. In back, a priest and priestess hold ceremonial rattles (sistrums).
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