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Remains of temple of Isis found [ Florence Italy ]
ANSA News in English ^ | May 28, 2009 | unattributed

Posted on 06/01/2009 3:46:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Remains of temple of Isis found Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for a new water cistern for the courthouse's anti-incendiary system... Palchetti said the remains were ''comparable'' to others found over the last three centuries in the immediate area that have also been attributed to the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility who was later adopted by the Greeks and Romans. The location of the temple is unknown, Palchetti said, but it is believed to have been built just outside the Roman part of the city, near the current courthouse building. Meanwhile, Florence's Culture Councillor Eugenio Giani said ongoing excavations of an ancient Roman theatre under the city's Palazzo Vecchio will mean members of the public will be able to visit the site in two years' time. Archaeologists have already uncovered the area where spectators sat and a portion of the orchestra as well as revealed the story of the theatre and its fall into disuse. Constructed at the end of the first century AD, it was in use until the end of the fourth century before remaining structures were used as a burial place, stalls for animals and a prison during Medieval times.
Photo: A statue recently on show at the Egittomania show in Naples dedicated to the cult of the goddess Isis.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: florence; godsgravesglyphs; isis; italy

1 posted on 06/01/2009 3:46:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 06/01/2009 3:47:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, but she still couldn’t beat Wonder-woman in a fight.


3 posted on 06/01/2009 3:48:15 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: SunkenCiv

(You said they’d never find it. NOW what do we do...?)


4 posted on 06/01/2009 3:51:16 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Is a vegetatian permitted to eat animal crackers?)
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To: SunkenCiv

AS Bill said, “it depends on the meaning of Isis”


5 posted on 06/01/2009 4:25:21 PM PDT by wildbill ( The reason you're so jealous is that the voices talk only to me.)
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;’)


6 posted on 06/01/2009 4:54:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: PGR88

Don’t get me started on *that* b-. ;’)


7 posted on 06/01/2009 4:55:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Monkey Face

I began to worry when the French team excavated the statue buried near one of Hatshepsut’s obelisks.


8 posted on 06/01/2009 4:56:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

*whispers*
(But you still haven’t said what we do. Do I need to leave town?)


9 posted on 06/01/2009 5:04:17 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Is a vegetatian permitted to eat animal crackers?)
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To: Monkey Face

I think we’re in the clear. The guy carrying the Isis temple treasury was found with the loot intact, under the ash layers, in a street in Pompeii.


10 posted on 06/01/2009 5:41:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
about 200 AD, the quality of roman emperors started to go to hell.


11 posted on 06/01/2009 7:47:03 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Liz Cheney 2012)
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To: SunkenCiv

When I went to Firenze the week after Easter, I found out that, while digging to lay tram tracks, they found more ruins near the station (Santa Maria Novella). Nice place, Florence, but I’m more enamoured by the glory that is Rome (spent 9 days there this time, it’s my third visit, but I still want to go back again!)


12 posted on 06/11/2009 3:53:54 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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