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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 ...
A tholos, adorned with frescoes, is at the top of the Sacra via, where the Clivus Palatinus branched off to the south. [5] Its approximate site is also probably indicated by the Haterii relief on which, to the immediate left of the arch of Titus, is a statue of the Magna Mater seated under an arch at the top of a flight of thirteen steps. [6]
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 ...
The image of Cybele was moved to the Temple of the Magna Mater in 191 BC when the temple was dedicated by Marcus Junius Brutus in the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica. [11] A fragment of Valerius Antias from Livy 's Ab Urbe Condita 36.36.4 records that Megalesia were again held in 191 BC and that "[they] were the first to be held ...
the needle of the Mother of the Gods (Acus Matris Deum), kept in the Temple of Cybele on the Palatine Hill.; [5] the terracotta four-horse chariot brought from Veii ( Quadriga Fictilis Veientanorum ), supposed to have been commissioned by the last king of Rome Tarqinius Superbus , which was displayed on the roof of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus ...
In Roman times half of the marketplace was transformed into a small temple to the Bona Dea, a goddess of the oracle, and later to Cybele. In springtime the priestesses of Cybele brought a sacred pine into the sanctuary, symbolizing the god Atys. In the temple there was also an altar dedicated to the priestess Loreia, with a stone carving of the ...
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The temple was destroyed by an earthquake in the early 1st century. The sanctuary was dedicated to both Aphrodite and Cybele, who were worshipped here in parallel. There was a local correlation of Aphrodite-Cybele, which was mentioned by Hipponax and Photius. Inscriptions and votive offerings found at the site have testified to the parallel ...