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Photo: A Statue of the Goddess Isis.

According to a published report, workmen digging inside a Florence courthouse found the remains of a temple dedicated to the worship of Isis.

Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

The worship of Isis was popular throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was known as the goddess of motherhood and fertility.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Archaeology, Isis

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