DESPRE CYBELAE ŞI ADORATORII SĂI DE LA DROBETA
ON CYBELAE AND HER WORSHIPPERS IN DROBETA

Summary/Abstract: It is important to approach and analyze the religious beliefs of a community as so we can draw much more correctly the image of this one, its ethnic, social, and cultural structure, but also find up precious data on the collective mentality. Cybele‘s cult and religious community are referred to in the present work, for this micro-Asiatic goddess joined the support and involving of certain faithful who let important information on these aspects, as the analyze of both the epigraphic and sculptural materials let us know. The epigraphic data prove that a place of worship existed in Drobeta, the portico of which was reconstituted by a matron, a financial and probably social too well positioned one. In analyzing the materials of Cybele’s cult I referred also to the pedestals carrying images of a head of a bull or a ram with a band of taenia on the front, placed between two lions. I do consider that Cybele worshipping might be connected to another goddess, Venus precisely, as we know that they were worshipped especially in Dalmatia. Finally, I may remind of a deeper feminine involving within the religious community who worshipped Cybele, far from what we know on the other worshipped divinities in Drobeta.

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