The collection of Isis on display at the complex of Santa Sofia

Among the richest churches bells History, most vaunted and famous, It is definitely the beautiful Hagia Sophia in Benevento, architectural gem that in 2011 He managed to get the prestigious title of UNESCO protected Well, as falling, together with complexes of Cividale del Friuli, Brescia, Castelseprio, Spoleto, Campello sul Clitunno and Monte Sant'Angelo, in serial site "Lombards in Italy: the places of power ".

An honorable mention finally deserves the Egyptian section of the museum, from the 2013 exposed within the premises of ARCOS, within a permanent exhibition entitled 'Isis wonderful and outrageous. Journey to the myth of real and virtual». The section in question collects fragments found in 1903 by Almerico Meomartini during the restoration of the police station located next to the Augustinian convent near the Arch of Trajan. who, according Memorartini, was the Temple of Isis, from others placed between the Duomo and Piazza Cardinal Pacca. Domitian had erected between 88 e 89 d.C. to venerate the goddess, but also to celebrate itself. The fragments are all over fifty and include several sculptures
Representatives Emperor Domitian in Pharaonic clothes, le divinità Anubis, Thot, Horus, with the head of a falcon, e Apis, with a bull semblance, priestesses of Isis, priests of Osiris, various plates engraved, leoni, sphinxes, an obelisk and the same Isis. Among the pieces of greater importance should be mentioned Cesta with mystical symbols of the serpent and the crescent moon and the remains of the Isis pelagia, gods of the seas. They are related to this wonderful collection of the obelisk Papinian Square and the Apis Bull placed at the intersection of Via Posillipo and Viale San Lorenzo.