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Salve,
I read somewhere that followers of the Isis cult were marked by clothing and hair. Does someone know what exactly these marks would have been?
And the second part of my question: would there have been Roman soldiers among the followers of this cult and would they have been allowed to show marks of the cult.
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Jef Pinceel
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At first: I don't know aything specific about this cult.
But there is a nice inscription found in Aachen (Aken), Ger, about an Isis temple donated by a centurion's wife.
So at least the soldier families had connections to the cult.
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An Isis Temple excavate in Marathon dated 200 A.D. yielded a statue of the goddess in greco-roman outfit with a snake coiled to right hand and an egyptian headband like that seen on "pharaonic" statues.
Isis took slowly over the cult of Venus in the western world.
She was more popular with the soldiers wives/mistresses rather than the troopers themselves but again if a girl had stollen a soldiers hart wouldn't he ask the devine help to earn the lasse's favor?
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There is a pic of Pompei, where a sacrifice to Isis is shown. The priest wear white breat-free clothes and have completly shaved hair.
Susanna
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