Cybele, Gods' mother, was adored in Pessinonte, Phrigia. She is a ground goddess protecting the fields and the agricolture.
During the Second Punic War (205 a.D.), The Sybillian Books advised the Romans to search in Pessinonte the black stone rappresenting the mother of the gods. The stone was maintened in the Temple of Victoria.
The costruction of a Temple of Magna Mater started in 204 a.D. and finished in 191 a.D. The temple in the south-west area of the Palatinus was consacrated in April.
The builduing fired two times: in 111 a.D. and in 3 p.D., after the works of recostruction. It was rebuilded by Augustus.
The temple by Augustus was created on an high base with big steps. The front was hexastyle and corinthian; there weren't colunms on the lates (prostyle).
Augustus shown his close to the religio of Cybele and his wife Livia was resembled to the goddess. This worship has a large growing since the end of the Imperial era (or since the interdiction of the paganeism).

The Project

These are the ruins of the ancient Temple of Magna Mater on the Palatinus builded in 191 a.D. during the Second Punic War.

JOINT DECLARATIO ABOUT THE THE TEMPLE OF MAGNA MATER IN ROMA
I. Senior Curule Aedile Caeso Fabius Quintilianus (Aedilian site, Thule site), Honorable Caius Cornelius Puteanus (Germania Inferior site), Honorable Claudia Cornelia (Germania Inferior site), Illustrus Franciscus Apulus Caesar (Italia site), Honorable Caius Curius Saturninus (Finnicae site), Honorable Emilia Curia Finnica (Finnicae site and Academia site), Illustrus Antonius Gryllus Graecus (Lusitania site) and Illustra Iulia Cocceia have formed an alliance to further the correct restoration and care for the Temple of Magna Mater in Rome.

II. Each of the above promise to place a picture of the Temple of Magna Mater in Rome on "their" Nova Roman web-site (Aedilian, Provincial or Regional) with an inquiry asking all that visit their web-site to contribute to the correct restoration and care of the Temple of Magna Mater in Rome. The web-site shall also have the address of the Propraetor of Italia, so that it is possible to contact him to send funds to him to enable Provincia Italia to execute this joint promise. This web-page shall be designed by Illustrus Franciscus Apulus Caesar and made available by him to all the co-signers of this declaratio.

Signed in March the 8th, in the year of the consulship of Marcus Octavius Germanicus and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, 2755 AUC. by:

Senior Curule Aedile Caeso Fabius Quintilianus, Illustrus Franciscus Apulus Caesar, Honorable Caius Curius Saturninus, Honorable Emilia Curia Finnica, Illustrus Antonius Gryllus Graecus and Illustra Iulia Cocceia.

Help us sending your donation to take care of this Temple. You can send your money (check, cash, etc.) to:

Francesco Valenzano
[Franciscus Apulus Caesar, Propraetor Provinciae Italiae]
Via Rimini, 12
70026 Modugno (BA)
Italy

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Informations:
Senior Curule Aedile Caeso Fabius Quintilianus: tjalens.h@telia.com
Quaestor Franciscus Apulus Caesar: sacro_barese_impero@libero.it