Isis and I in Canopus
Found in the second half of the 18th century, this fresco has a fairly rare theme. It shows the nymph Io who, persecuted by Hera for her love with Zeus, arrives in Egypt, at the sanctuary of Canopus, and is welcomed by the goddess Isis who is accompanied, according to Egyptian symbolism, by the crocodile and the cobra. The iconographic prototype derives from Alexandria and dates from the third century BC. |Esso was placed in the ekklesiasterion, the banquet hall of the Temple of Isis
