Category:Egyptianizing columns from the Iseum Campense

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Gray granite columns from the portico of the sanctuary of Isis and Sarapis in the Campus Martius, with Egyptianizing relief decoration of priests standing on stools and holding canopic jars, poles with lotus flowers, and other Egyptian objects. Roman work, imitating Egyptian style, probably dating to the restoration of the sanctuary by Domitian in the last quarter of the 1st century CE. Portions of three columns are in the collection of the Musei Capitolini in Rome; a fragment of a fourth is now in the Museo archeologico nazionale in Florence. (For references, see File:Egyptianizing columns from the Iseum Campense (Rome, Mus Cap) 01.jpg.)