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Ras el Soda temple

معبد الرأس السوداء
Location	Alexandria
Region	Egypt
History
Founded	2nd century CE
Cultures	Romano-Egyptian

The Ras el Soda temple (Arabic: معبد الرأس السوداء) is a Roman Egyptian religious structure located in Alexandria, Egypt. Built in the 2nd century AD, it was dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

History

The Greek inscription on the pillar indicates that the temple is a private foundation founded by a Roman called Isidoros, who lived in the 2nd century CE and offered the temple to Isis to thank her for having healed his foot after he had fallen from his horse-driven carriage. On 29 October 1936, diggers working in the Ras el-Soda district east of Alexandria came across some columns that were later identified as remains of a temple when excavations of the site began, led by the then director of the Graeco–Roman Museum of Alexandria, Achille Adriani, who uncovered the remains of Ras el–Soda Temple. In the early 1990s, the Supreme Council for Antiquities relocated the temple from its original location (due to the temple's exposure to rising ground waters) to the Chatby Garden on Horreya Street.

Architecture

The temple, which is built of limestone, is a small ionic prostyle temple measuring 5 by 7.5 meters, sitting on a podium 1.4 meters high, and contains a wide staircase in front. The temple contains marble columns and a cella (an inner chamber) with a secondary doorway in the long wall on the eastern side.