The moment
For a century and more after other Egyptian temples fell silent, Isis was still worshipped on the island of Philae, where Nubian peoples from the south kept the right to come and pray under a treaty with Rome. Procopius reports that the emperor Justinian ordered the sanctuaries shut and the priests seized. Philae holds the last dated hieroglyphic inscription anywhere, carved in 394 CE.
People: Justinian I