Remains of the Temple of Cybele

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Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, October 4, 1720–November 9, 1778)

Title Remains of the Temple of Cybele (Avanzi del Tempio di Cibele. . .)

Plate Number Plate 22

Series The Antiquities of Rome (Vol. 1)

Date 1756

Medium Etching on paper

Dimensions Image: 5 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (13.3 × 20 cm)
Plate: 5 3/8 × 7 15/16 in. (13.7 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 16 1/4 in. (26.4 × 41.3 cm)

Credit Line Collection of Diether Thimme, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 98.283.2

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Cybele, known to the Romans as the Great Mother of the Gods, inspired one of the most popular cults of the imperial age. This small, circular building, like similar temples dedicated to female deities such as Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, represented an informal, personal, and occasionally wild practice of worship, in contrast to the more dignified rituals of the state religion.

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Plate Number Plate 22
Series Title The Antiquities of Rome (Vol. 1)
Foreign Language Series Title Le Antichità Romane (tome I)

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