A fantastic wall at the Temple of Isis (italy)

So we are here just on a hill close to Fondi where we were a little while ago and here we have again this wall look at these stones they're beautiful huge again puffy with a cornice and there's a whole wall here it is called the Temple of Isis which I have no idea why they should call a place in Italy referring to an Egyptian goddess but this is clearly again a polygonal wall really beautiful and the stones are huge look at Deborah and very puffy like this one's coming out at least 30 centimeters each one of these has this strange 3d shape let's see if there's more we asked permission and they said it's no problem we can visit this wall oh wow here it's very tall so it's a single structure it's not like a wall around the city or something but it's beautiful and it's megalithic so this area is actually full full of stuff but smaller stuff or at least there's not so much left these blocks remind me a lot of Pnyx near the Acropolis of Athens the stones there are much bigger but the type of stone you see like this one there is a some kind of a frame a cornice around it which is more flattened and then in the center it's really coming out and they're all tendentially like this this one really coming out a lot I mean you have this kind of architecture let's call it like this or way masonry way to to work the stones which is exactly one-to-one the same we've seen in in Greece and nobody cares to make a connection but just independent people in different times who made this here a nice polygonal joint and just to give you a sense of scale Deborah please on the size of these blocks they're not huge but they're big I mean they're all over a ton something has been built on top here there's a stairway going up and the walls here go on you can see the color changes on where water flows more or less here we got a very this one single block has got one two three four five six seven eight sides this one is very big you can turn around the corner again and as I said it's today considered to have been the basement of the Temple of Isis in Italy central Italy Lazio from this view you can see how much the blocks protrude in the center I believe up to almost half a meter for some blocks the corner as we have seen before is a nice straight line okay this is the I guess east side as usually nobody cares about this place really surprising we were told about this place by a local tourist office guide look at the corner Deborah is pointing to I'd guess this wall is at least yeah three and a half meters high that's really amazing didn't expect anything like this we're just driving by and Deborah said well let's go to this place that they told us the tourist guide and said yeah okay it's not far it's closing in half an hour so we're just in time this is the corner Deborah was pointing to the joint okay here another angle the same wall walking back we're gonna try to get on top maybe we can see more parts there but this is really honestly for me one of the most amazing walls I've seen so far both for the size of the blocks as well as the level preservation and you can see it's going on deeper down into the earth so who knows how tall originally it was and here another really strangely shaped block so justly Deborah shows that it's really eroded but you can still see the joints how they were made really looks like other places you've seen here you can still see a joint which is quite well preserved but the stones themselves are so eroded and why make this frame and leave them puffy and rounded convex to the center this is something which will baffle us for a long time so from here I can get a view of the whole piece of wall which is I'd guess probably around 60 meters long I can check it later on google maybe but now it's all in the wood so it's really hard to see it anyway it's it's a real long piece of wall so even if this was a temple as the official theory wants it was a big temple so that's the western wall we just filmed a little while ago we went on top of the wall and you can see that the wall here kept on going on there's just the top part of the top row stone still coming out of the ground that means that if they would dig here it would probably be four meters or something similar of walls going down in here again a few blocks going on and then it gets lost here probably covered by dirt over the millennia and we are in a nice ore cart of lemon trees and this is the so-called villa puricelli which sits on top of this alleged isis temple in central italy near fondi so we are here on top of the wall you can see this is the stairway we just came up to get to this landfill on top of the wall and I was watching this entrance here this gate and it's clearly not original and you can see that because the blocks on the sides they are cut in the wrong way you see all blocks have some kind of a cornice this block which sits right next to the entrance only has a part of it and the block is cut there and the same happens with this block and the same happens with that one block so this passage was definitely cut at a later time the people who built this wall would never do something like this they would finish here make it flat on this side have the puffy side just in the inside and a nice cornice around as all blocks have in this specific wall right there i was saying and then there is a missing lintel there it's two blocks doing the top and somebody put some concrete here which i don't believe is going to be very helpful to hold up this multi-ton blocks but the idea was that so again wall that has been reutilized repurposed who knows how many times over the millennia since it was built but really one of the nicest we have seen so far in this trip and this characteristics of having a cornice and a convex side in the center this is really something we've seen before a lot in greece it's present in italy as well but in greek polygonal sites it's more common than it is here okay and here we get back to the original part where we started from thanks for watching