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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 Bel; Temple of Nabu (Palmyra) Temple of Ceres, Liber and Libera; Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Fides; Temple of Flora; Temple of Fortuna Equestris; Temple of Fortuna Muliebris; Temple of Fortuna Primigenia; Temple of Hercules Custos; Temple of Hercules Musarum; Temple of Hercules Pompeianus; Temple of Honor and Virtue; Temple ...
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 ...
View of the Palatine Hill from across the Circus Maximus A schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and the Servian Wall. The Palatine Hill (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /; Classical Latin: Palatium; [1] Neo-Latin: Collis/Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been ...
Temple of Al-Lat; Temple of Cybele (Palatine) Temple of Hera, Olympia; Temple of Isis at Menouthis; Temple of Isthmia; Temple of Serapis (Quirinal Hill) Temple of Venus (Aelia Capitolina) Temple of Zeus Belos
The Vaticanum was also the site of the Phrygianum, a temple of the Magna Mater goddess Cybele. Although secondary to this deity's main worship on the Palatine Hill , this temple gained such fame in the ancient world that both Lyon , in Gaul, and Mainz , in Germany called their own Magna Mater compounds "Vaticanum" in imitation. [ 9 ]