Temple of Isis
East of the car park of the San Nicola Museum. The temple attributed and attributed to the cult of Isis (Italy by the mercenaries of the Roman army on their return from the Egyptian campaign. The structure (60nd century AD) is made up of a triportico delimiting a 36m x XNUMXm square. preceded by a pronaos, and followed by a forepart on a podium, accessible via two lateral flights of nine steps.
His cult spread in the Greco-Roman world probably around the III, II century. B.C. and was associated with that of Demeter. THE
"Sicily on the Net" web area connected: Archaeological Area of Agrigento (Valley of the Temples) (1997)
Area recognized by UNESCO (Source Unesco.org)
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The gates of Agrigento (Source Wikipedia)
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