. Kings and gods of Egypt . estum, or in Sicily at Agrigentum and the Iseum of Pompeii a reproduction, on asmaller scale, of the famous Serapeum of Alex-andria, dedicated by Ptolemy Soter to Isis andSerapis? From the description of Rufinus,2 who 1 Plutarch, who was high-priest of Apollo at Delphi, at the endof the first century, had dedicated his treatise De I side et Osirideto a priestess of Dionysos, Clea, who was an Isiac. Apuleius hastold the story of his initiation into the Mysteries of Isis in BookXI of the Metamorphoses, written about 160 2 Hist. Eccl., ii, 23. Cf. Ammi
. Kings and gods of Egypt . estum, or in Sicily at Agrigentum and the Iseum of Pompeii a reproduction, on asmaller scale, of the famous Serapeum of Alex-andria, dedicated by Ptolemy Soter to Isis andSerapis? From the description of Rufinus,2 who 1 Plutarch, who was high-priest of Apollo at Delphi, at the endof the first century, had dedicated his treatise De I side et Osirideto a priestess of Dionysos, Clea, who was an Isiac. Apuleius hastold the story of his initiation into the Mysteries of Isis in BookXI of the Metamorphoses, written about 160 2 Hist. Eccl., ii, 23. Cf. Ammien Marcellin, xxii, 17, whoextols the magnificent library lodged in an annex of the following description is by Rufinus, who visited the Serapeumabout the end of the fourth century. The mound on which it has been built was formed, not bynature, but by the hand of man. It towers above a mass ofbuildings and is reached by more than one hundred steps. Itextends on all sides in a square of great dimensions. All the. The M\ ;teri( r hippers; tin of the god only occupied the centra] portion; all around were the buildings used for purposes and for the contemplative life. Serapeum was not only a church; il convent and a school. The Iseum of Pompeii did not have tlcolossal dimensions. As we know it to-day, itoccupies the site of an older temple, destroythe earthquake of 63, rebuilt before am. - in Pompeii by a zealous community and already in lower part, up to the level of the pavement, is vaulted. Thisbasement which receives the light from above through openis divided into secret chambers, separated from one anotherserving divers mysterious functions. The circuit of the t:;story is occupied by conference halls, cells for the very high building, generally inhabited by the guardians of thetempl
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