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Iseion
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English
Etymology
From en grc Ἴσειον, from grc Ἶσις Isis.
Noun
en Iseum.
1854, William Bodham Donne, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, s.v. "Hermonthis":
In the Pharaonic times it was celebrated for the worship of Isis, Osiris, and their son Horus. Its ruins still attest the magnificence of its buildings but the Iseion... was built in the reign of the last Cleopatra...
en 1936 Frank Cole Babbitt w:Plutarch Isis and Osiris §2 The name of her shrine also clearly promises knowledge and comprehension of reality; for it is named Iseion, to indicate that we shall comprehend reality if in a reasonable and devout frame of mind we pass within the portals of her shrines.
Anagrams
en eiinos ionise