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Pompeii: Temple of Isis, painting of priest making offering



Pompeii: Temple of Isis, priest making offering (Naples Mus.Arch.; photo: Athena Review)


This painting in the 4th style is from the Temple of Isis at Pompeii is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 

It shows the detail of a priest of the cult of Isis holding out a bowl or other ceremonial apparatus, as if making an offering.



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