The Temple of Isis on Delos was built by the Athenians in 135.  Here it is today, along with my own attempt to fix it up a bit with Windows Paint!
The small but elegant cella of the Iseum at Pompeii.  On the right is the ruined temple today.  On the left, an illustration by Decimus of the cella in better days.  Temples of Isis were generally far more accessible to the people than the Egyptian temples.  People could gather at the beginning of the day for the morning rites when the image of Isis was revealed.
Right. a votive statue of Isis from the north east portico of the Pompeii Iseum. She is dressed in contemporary Roman attire and was originally painted. As is often the case with Isis statues, she is holding a sistrum, now broken.

Below, an incense altar from Delos {restored with Windows Paint}
Above right and left, old monochrome photographs of two beautiful Isis statues which once graced the Pompeii Iseum.  These statues are typical of Roman representations of Isis.  She is holding her sacred instrument, the sistrum in her left hand and a jar of water in the right.  The best known example of this style is the famous Capitoline Isis.  {See next page}
In the center, a painting from Herculaneum depicting an Isiac ceremony.  A priest emerges from the Temple with a jar of purification water, possibly imported from the Nile in Egypt.  Note the priest in the center conducting the singers.  In the foreground, another priest offers incense to the Goddess of a Thousand Names.
Left, Isis recieving Io into Egypt.  This fresco, once part of the Iseum in Pompeii, is now preserved in Naples.  Right, another fresco of an Isian rite from Herculaneum.
Notice the dancer upper center.  Like the other fresco above, wild ibises are roaming around.
Two models of the Temple of Isis, or Iseum Campense, on the Campus Martius in Rome.  The model on the left is by Andre Caron {used with permission} and the one on the left is from a model in the Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome {photo by Barbara McManus}

A sestertius of the Emperor Vespasian from the year 71 gives us a view of the front of the temple.  The statue of Isis is center in the door. 
As popular as Isis was in the Hellenistic world, her reception in Rome was not unanimously welcoming.  We know of at least five occasions when her shrines were destroyed and her worship prohibited within the city!  This was partly political; in the Republic, Isis had followers among the populares, and not so much among the more traditionalist Senatorial class.  Once during the consulship of Gabinius, Isis followers disrupted a sacred procession on the grounds that Gabinius had done nothing to honor Isis and Serapis!  {That little stunt did not make a convert of Gabinius}  The cult was recognized by the second triumvirate, but Augustus later prohibited the cult in the urbs
but ignored private household shrines. 

How the Iseum in Rome came to be destroyed and rebuilt is worthy of a Lifetime Network movie.  The story, probably with some exageration, is found in Josephus' Antiquities.  There was a man named Mundus, and he was in love with {in lust with} a woman named Paulina.  Paulina was very beautiful, a devotee of Isis, and a complete airhead.  She rejected Mundus' advances, so he did the spurned male suicide-pity me bit, which so worried his freedwoman Ide that she said she could contrive to get Paulina to sleep with Mundus.  All it would cost was a mere 50,000 drachmae. {Gee, that's all?}  Ide went to the priests of Isis, explained the problem, and offered them a cut of the loot if they would help.  So one of the priests told Paulina that the god Anubis was so pleased with her that he wanted to sleep with her in the temple.  Paulina was so honored by this that she told her husband that she had the chance to sleep with a god.  Her husband, apparently no Sherlock either, said "OK".  So off to the temple she went.  That night, Mundus came in wearing a jackal mask, and with such a convincing disquise, managed to "sleep" with Paulina.  Smart woman.
Now he might have gotten away with it, but nooooo....he had to brag about his conquest, and to Paulina herself no less!  Really bad move.  Paulina was so mortified to think she slept with a clod instead of a god, that she complained to her husband, who complained to the Emperor Tiberius.  Tiberius had Ide and the priests crucified, and the temple of Isis destroyed and her statue thrown into the Tiber.  Mundus got off with banishment.

But the story of Isis in Rome does not end there.  After Tiberius there came a champion who had the temple rebuilt and her worship promoted.  Who was this champion?  He was...let me see....he was...
Oh no! 
No, please let it not be!
No, no, no...

NOT CALIGULA!

Oh well, I guess even Caligula could do something nice once in a while.
Anyway, Caligula's Isis temple eventually burned down in the 80's, to be rebuilt and embellished by the Emperor Domitian.
Now I have to wonder...is it possible that the mutilated remnant of an Isis statue known as "Madame Lucrezia" is one destroyed by old Tiberius?
"Madame Lucrezia" Rome
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