The Emblem Shelf
The Procession of the Priests of Isis
A temple procession, in two registers.
- Work
- from Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Maker
- Athanasius Kircher
- Date
- 1652–1654
- Source
- Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Priests walk in two rows, Pars Prior above and Pars Posterior below, carrying a harp, a lamp, palm branches and sacred vessels. Athanasius Kircher built the scene for Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–1654, from the procession of Isis described by Apuleius in The Golden Ass, as the heading says. The figures are drawn plainly, like a frieze, so that each object can be read. Kircher wanted a reader to be able to walk in the procession page by page.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Procession of the Priests of Isis printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), held by Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
