Pompeii and Herculaneum had many influences over the years. Greek, Egyptian and even their own, Roman. In some way they all work together and form bonds, connecting one to another and it works, but how does it? Can burial practices in Italy reflect upon the Egyptians? The Temple of Isis located in Italy but originally also from Egypt they connect, and make more connections through paintings, sculptures and the main one, belief and ceremonies. The most amazing thing about this though is how all it is still alive and hasn’t really gone away, there maybe aspects missing, but you can still pull details out of things even religions about lost and forgotten cities that once largely followed them, their beliefs and practices.
Protected by a terracotta casing, a fragile cremation urn was excavated in the Necropoleis of the Nucerian Gate in Pompeii. The city of Pompeii didn't allow their citizens to bury or cremate any dead within the city walls, although many funerary monuments are also located on Sepilchre Street near the Herculaneum Gate and other gateways leading out or …show more content…
This fresco shows us a priest standing at the entrance holding a vessel; another attending the sacred fire and the other leads the faithful. This then can tell us that these two Italian towns had similarities in influencing them and making them both so similar also with town plans, however Pompeii being more busy and Herculaneum being a coastal get away and much quieter, but the similarities also include religion and the goddess Isis demonstrates the popularity of a component of the Egyptian religion. This to works for the other religions in that Herculaneum were perhaps named after the Greek god Herakles, and known as the Roman Hercules. Images of Hercules have also been preserved in Pompeii at the Temple of Isis and again in public places of
Protected by a terracotta casing, a fragile cremation urn was excavated in the Necropoleis of the Nucerian Gate in Pompeii. The city of Pompeii didn't allow their citizens to bury or cremate any dead within the city walls, although many funerary monuments are also located on Sepilchre Street near the Herculaneum Gate and other gateways leading out or …show more content…
This fresco shows us a priest standing at the entrance holding a vessel; another attending the sacred fire and the other leads the faithful. This then can tell us that these two Italian towns had similarities in influencing them and making them both so similar also with town plans, however Pompeii being more busy and Herculaneum being a coastal get away and much quieter, but the similarities also include religion and the goddess Isis demonstrates the popularity of a component of the Egyptian religion. This to works for the other religions in that Herculaneum were perhaps named after the Greek god Herakles, and known as the Roman Hercules. Images of Hercules have also been preserved in Pompeii at the Temple of Isis and again in public places of