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Molly Swetnam-Burland
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List of Color Plates page vii

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: From Egypt to Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Historical Context and Framework 2
Egypt in Italy:Reconsidering, Recontextualizing 5
Images of Egypt 14

1 Egyptian Objects, Roman Contexts:Appropriation

and Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Riches of Egypt:Trade, Production, and the Egyptian Aesthetic 19
Egyptian Imports in Italy 28
Egyptian Monuments, Made in Italy 41
Style and Substance:Egyptian Eclecticism 53
Egypt in the Empire 63

2 Aegyptus Redacta :Augustus Obelisks and the

Spoils of Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Augustus Egyptian Obelisks 68
Celebrating Conquest:Victory Monuments and the Spoils of Egypt 71
Kingly Monuments in the Roman City:The Tomb of Cestius and the
Egyptian Aesthetic 82
Educating Roman Eyes:Augustus Obelisks, Described in Rome 90
Augustus Obelisks in Rome:Circus Maximus and Campus Martius 97

3 The Sanctuary of Isis in Pompeii:Dedication and

Devotion, Myth and Ritual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Decoration and Function of the Sanctuary of Isis 106
Cult and Community:The Isiaci 112
Display and Redisplay, Dedication and Devotion 117
Text and Context:Io and Isis in the Ekklesiasterion 125

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Appendix 3.1.Marble Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Isis 138

Appendix 3.2.Dipinti Near the Sanctuary of Isis 139
Appendix 3.3.Multiples and Adaptations:Io Panel Paintings 140
Appendix 3.4.Graffiti Quoting or Adapting Ovid from Pompeii 141

4 Images of Egypt:Land at the Limit of Belief . . . . . . . . . . 142

Nilotica:The Land and People of Egypt in Roman Art 144
Egypt in the Empire:The Vatican Nile and Louvre Tiber 155
Between Neighboring Ombi and Tentura:The Geography of Egypt
in Juvenal 15 167
Appendix 4.1.Argument of Juvenal, Satire xv 181

Conclusion: The Afterlives of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Notes 187
Works Cited and Consulted 217
Index 247

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