English: "White-robed priests of Isis perform a water ritual as chanting devotees line the steps of the goddess's temple in this wall painting from Herculaneum."
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What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled the World, Time-Life Books, 1997
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Fresco of an Isiac gathering, first century CE. One priest tends a fire while another holds up a vessel of sacred water at the door of a temple flanked by sphinxes. Wall painting from Herculaneum.