#hellenization
Happy Mythology Monday! This picture of the Egyptian goddess Isis comes from Giovanni Battista Casali’s De veteribus Aegyptiorum Ritibus, published in Rome in 1644. While Isis originated in the Egyptian pantheon, she took on many Hellenistic qualities after the Ptolemaic dynasty became the rulers of Egypt. In this image, her headdress is classically Egyptian, but the cornucopia she often carries is a sign of her identification with the Greco-Roman goddess Demeter/Ceres.
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