The Sanctuary of Isis is one of the most evocative sections of the Dion archaeological site. The Egyptian goddess Isis was worshipped throughout the Hellenistic and Roman world, but her cult here was particularly well established: the sanctuary contains a series of pools used for ritual purification, and excavators found a remarkable series of marble statues — including figures of Aphrodite and Isis herself — preserved in an ancient cistern as if deliberately hidden for safekeeping.
The open-air remains show the layout of the temenos clearly, with the water features still visible. The statues themselves are now in the museum. Walking through the site on a quiet morning, with Olympus overhead and birdsong in the wetlands nearby, has a contemplative quality that the busy sites of southern Greece rarely offer.