Road station
Iseum
A small drawing of a house, set apart and linked to no road, marks Iseum in the Nile Delta, the first of three such symbols in this part of the map. The name means a sanctuary of Isis, the Egyptian mother goddess and protector, so the little building stands for a temple, not an inn. Placed farthest to the north-west of the Delta, it probably meant the shrine at Sais of the goddess Neith, Isis's sister, whom Herodotus and Plutarch equated with her. If so, this entry reaches back to the fifth century BC.