“Cult of Isis in Benevento” .

The first to produce the hieroglyphics of the Benevento obelisks was Barnabita Ungarelli Luigi Maria in the Latin text “Interpretatio Obesiscorum Urbis ad Gregorium XVI Ponteficem Maximum digesta for Aloisium Mariam Ungarellium sodalem Barnabitam” of 1843. Later the famous Egyptologist, Ernesto Schiaparelli, creator of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, in 1893, referring to Ungarelli, wrote his translation of the hieroglyphs in the text kept at the Royal Academy of Lincei in Rome July 1893 Schiaparelli “News of Egyptian Antiquities Excavations” – discovered within the town of Benevento.

The first publication dedicated to the cult of Isis in Benevento only appeared in 1969.

It is the monograph of Prof. Hans Wolfgang Muller “Der Isiskult im antiken Benevent und Katalog der Skulpuren aus dem agyptischen Heiligtumern im Museum of Sannio zu Benevent” translated into Italian by Prof. Silvio Curto at the time (1968) director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin , since then the city of Benevento ties its destiny to the Etruscan Turinese and continues to keep in a small museum (Museo del Sannio – Arcos) Egyptian statuary works of inestimable archaeological value. From a fragment of sculpture, a boat, which according to Muller was supposed to represent Isis Pelagia, started the journey back in time.

Ungarelli Luigi Maria interpretatio Obesiscorum Urbis ad Gregorium 16 Pontiff Sodalem Barnabitam copy kept at the Provincial Library A. Mellusi di Benevento Excavation News of Antiquities Egizie by Ernesto Schiaparelli July 1893 discoveries within the town of Benevento.

Library of the Accademia dei Lincei (ROME)

The Cult of Isis H.W.Muller library of the Museo del Sannio.