O zeiță mamă în Tracia
A Goddess Mother in Thrace

Summary/Abstract: Besides Bendis, near to Greek Artemis, Meter Theon or Kybele was also part of Thracian pantheon, as witnessed by the Rogozen treasure, terracotta plaques with Cybele, and by magic loom-weight from Pistiros, which bears on its lateral faces symbols of lighting, of solar standard, stars and female deity with broad skirt; on the bottom anagram thea meter (?).The weight is analysed in the frame of other loom-weight types in Greece and the Balkans, of Thracian religion, of the religious aspects of spinning and weaving, and in relation to “emancipation” of women in Early Hellenistic period.

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