Divine travellers from Egypt settling on Rhodes: Some issues for discussion

Travelling from the valley of the Nile across the sea, and settling in numerous regions of the Mediterranean area, during the Hellenistic period is considered a well-known story in relation to the primeval divinities of Egypt. The cults of the divine couple Isis and Osiris or Sarapis, their son Horus or Harpocrates, as well as Anubis, were rooted in newly founded sanctuaries, initially in the Aegean region and the Greek mainland and later on the Italian and Iberian peninsulas.¹ Τhe spread of the Isiac cults² beyond their natal land was stimulated by a mixture of politics, social interactions and commercial