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The Temple of Cybele or Temple of Magna Mater was Rome's first and most important temple to the Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), who was known to the Greeks as Cybele. It was built to house a particular image or form of the goddess, a meteoric stone brought from Greek Asia Minor to Rome in 204 BC at the behest of an oracle and temporarily housed ...
Annually, on 27 March, the sacred black stone of the Magna Mater was brought from her temple on the Palatine to where the brook of the Almo (now called the Acquataccio) crossed the via Appia south of the Porta Capena, for the ceremony of "Lavatio" (washing). Although there are numerous references to this ceremony, it seems to have constituted a ...
Temple of Bacchus; Temple of Bellona, Rome; Temple of Bona Dea; Temple of Castor and Pollux; Temple of Ceres, Liber and Libera; Temple of Concordia, Agrigento; Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Faunus; Temple of Feronia; Temple of Fides; Temple of Flora; Temple of Honor and Virtue; Temple of Iustitia; Temple of Janus (Roman Forum) Temple of ...
Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Cybele, Balchik; Temples of Cybele in Rome This page was last edited on 18 October 2018, at 13:17 (UTC). ...
Roman Syria Temples (Modern Lebanon)- (Modern Israel/Golan Heights) The 30 or so Temples of Mount Hermon are a group of small temples and shrines, some with substantial remains. Some are in modern Lebanon and Israel. Roman Temple at Harran al-Awamid; Roman Temple in Qasr Chbib; Temple dedicated to sun god (Helios), As-Suwayda Qanawat (Kanawat)
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Pages in category "Temples on the Palatine" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temples of Cybele in Rome; E ...
The Temple of Victory (Latin: templum Victoriae) is a temple on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It was dedicated to the Roman goddess of Victory. It is traditionally ascribed to Evander, [1] but was actually built by Lucius Postumius Megellus out of fines he levied during his aedileship and dedicated by him on 1 August [2] when consul in 294 BC. [3]