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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 Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Cybele, Balchik; Temples of Cybele in Rome This page was last edited on 18 October 2018, at 13:17 (UTC). Text is available ...
Temple of Hercules Victor, early circular temple, largely complete; Nymphaeum often called (erroneously) the Temple of Minerva Medica; Temple of Portunus (formerly called the Temple of Fortuna Virilis), near Santa Maria in Cosmedin and the Temple of Hercules Victor; Temple of Romulus, very complete circular exterior, early 4th century – Roman ...
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 Jupiter Invictus; Temple of Juturna; Temple ...
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Temple of Cybele (Palatine) ... (Palatine) Temple of Jupiter Invictus; V. Temple of Victory This page was last edited on 3 December 2015, at 15:44 ...
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]