_The worship of Isis outside of Egypt_: LAFAYE, Histoire du culte des
divinites d'Alexandrie, Serapis, Isis, Harpocrate et Anubis, hors de
l'Egypte, depuis les origines jusqu'a la naissance de l'ecole
neo-Platonicienne (Paris, 1883); for the literature relating to the
worship of Isis in Italy, see ROSCHER, Ausfuehrliches Lexikon der
griechischen und roemischen Mythologie, vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 398-412.
_Excavation of the temple_ (December 22, 1764, to September 27, 1766):
FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 164-194.
_Inscriptions relating to the temple_: PIRANESI (see below), pl.
70-72; C. I. L. X. 846-851. _Inscription found at Puteoli_ [p. 169]:
C. I. L. I. 577, X. 1781; WIEGAND, Die puteolanische Bauinschrift
sachlich erlaeutert, Jahrbuecher fuer classische Philologie,
Supplementband 20 (1894), pp. 659-778. An interesting graffito
relating to the worship of Isis was found in the house of the Silver
Wedding in 1892; see Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), p. 57, no. 7 (cf.
also DE ROSSI, Roma sotterranea, vol. 2, pp. 14-15).
_Remains, restoration_: SOGLIANO, Aedis Isidis Pompeiana, not yet
published [see Preface, p. vi.]; PIRANESI, Antiquites de Pompei
(designs made about 1788), vol. 2 (= vol. 26 of Opera, in 27 vols.),
pl. 59-72; MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 4, p. 24, pl. 7-11;
NICCOLINI, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (Naples, 1854-1895), vol.
1, pt. 3, end (12 pl.); NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 170-175, 346-349;
MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, p. 23; WEICHARDT, Pompeji vor der Zerstoerung, pp.
103-113.
_Statues_--_Bacchus_ [p. 170]: Museo Borb., vol. 9, pl. 11: ROUX,
Herculanum et Pompei, vol. 6, pl. 21. _Isis_ [p. 176]: Museo Borb.,
vol. 14, pl. 35. _Herm of Sorex_ [p. 176], PIRANESI, Antiquites de
Pompei, vol. 2. pl. 72. _The statue of Venus has disappeared_:
OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, note 208, p. 649.
_Paintings_ [pp. 172 _et seq._]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1-6, 135,
138, 391 _b_, 962, 1013, 1096-99, 1103, 1271, 1292, 1571, 1576-1577.
_Paintings from Herculaneum_ [p. 178]: ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei,
vol. 2, pl. 68, 69; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1111, 1112.
_A left hand carried in procession in honor of Isis_ [p. 173]: Apul.
Metam. XI. X.
_Service described by Apuleius_ [p. 176]: Metam. XI. XX. While the
people were praying the priest made a circuit of the altars, which
were evidently, as at Pompeii, distributed about the temple in the
court.
_Perseus rescuing Andromeda_ [p. 179]: that the male figure is
intended to represent Perseus and not Hermes is certain from the
description of the figure when first excavated--"alla cinta tiene una
testa alata" (FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 171). All
trace of the Medusa head has now disappeared.
_Initiation into the mysteries of Isis_ [p. 182]: Apul. Metam. XI.
XXI, XXIII.