Temple of Isis - Pompeii Scavi : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Temple of Isis - Pompeii Scavi / MumblerJamie
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Regio VIII.7.28.A candelabra fresco is on the north wall of the second arch from the north in the Ekklesiasterion.The temple and the structutes pertaining to it - which make up a full-fledged sanctuary area - was unearthed between 1764 and 1766. Almost intact, it decisively contributed to making Pompeii known to the world.The earliest construction of the temples dates to the end of the 2n Century BC, a time of great economic and cultural affluence for the city: it was thanks to trading with the East, first among which the emporium of Delos, that the cult of the goddess spread to Italy, first to Pozzuoli and later to Pompeii.The area chosen for the construction - behind the Large Theatre and close to a gate that led to the sea - was already sacred owing to the presence of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. The fist temple was completely destroyed in the earthquake of AD 62. An inscription on the door to the sanctuary tells us that the reconstruction starting from the foundation was entirely financed by Numerius Popidius Ampliatus, a freedman from an ancient Samnite family, who had the temple built in the name of his six-year-old son Celsinus.The sanctuary was made up of different buildings and altars surrounding the temple, encircled by an arcade. Unfolding upon the walls, entirely painted in red, was a ritual procession that portrayed the participation of several priests, each of whom performing a different rite. Inside a niche, in axis with the entrance to the temple, one fresco depicted the statue of Harpocrates, and a priest about to begin a rite nearby.Situated in a central position and looking eastward, the temple is on a high podium that was meant ot be big enough to contain the whole Isiac family: in the cella,which is wider than it is long, the statues of Isis an Osiris; outside it, in two niches to either side of the proanos, the statues of Harpocrates and Anubis, to whom were dedicated the two altars corresponding to the same niches; on the rear wall of the cella, inside a niche, a statue of Bacchus with a panther. The main altar is to the right of the entrance stairway to the temple. On the opposite side is a votive pit in which the ceremonial remains and offerings were preserved.In a corner of the courtyard is the purgatorium, an uncovered construction entirely decorated with stucco, used for purification ceremonies. Inside it was a series of steps leading to an underground space where a bath and a podium supporting the receptacle in which the sacred water of the Nile was kept preserved. Behind the temple, a large rectangular space (ecclesiasterion) was used for the meetings of those being intiated to the Isiac mysteries. The walls were decorated with great landscapes and three mythological scenes that told gthe story of Io, who protected the Egyptian population.Another meeting room was located on the northern side; this was smaller and more richly decorated ("sacristy"), and there was also a storage space. The sanctuary area was completed by a two-level residential complex which could be reached from the sanctuary courtyard. Members of the cult and the faithful who were preparing for their initiation lived there.The salvific goddess par excellence, according to the myth Isis gathered and assmebled the bones of Osiris, her brother and husband, who had been torn to peices by Set, their other brother, and brought him back to life for the time it took them to conceive a son, Horus. Isis arrived in the West during the Hellenistic period, worshipped by sailors and merchants as the protector of navigators. A distinguishing feature of her cult is the mystery, probably inspired by the Greek cults of Demeter and Persephone. The cult is reserved for initiates, and it consisted of structured community that was involved in almost everyday rites. The Egyptian goddess was no less popular, however: her ability to free a person from slavery, to restore life, and to guarantee a better one, ensured the dissemination of the cult in all social classes. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-10-12 11:30:18 |
| 撮影者 | MumblerJamie , United Kingdom |
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| カメラ | SM-G960F , samsung |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/826) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.4 |