Iseum
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Iseum, from Ancient Greek Ἴσειον (Íseion), from Ἶσις (Îsis, “Isis”). By surface analysis, Isis + -eum.
Noun
[edit]- A temple dedicated to the worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
- 1994, Sarolta A. Takacs, Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World, page 101:
- ...a temple of Minerva was on the east side of the Iseum...
- 2006, Lauren Hackworth Petersen, The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History, page 52:
- Most Pompeians[,] as they went about their daily business and moved through their shaken city, would inevitably have passed the Iseum on their way to the Triangular Forum...
- 2013, Liu Yulin, Temple Purity in 1-2 Corinthians, page 94: