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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Fossa Sanguinis Alternative Name: Kybele KultstätteCountry: Germany Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Neuss
Latitude: 51.183903N Longitude: 6.717480E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Harald_Platta visited on 17th Sep 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
The small cellar exhibits two opposite stairs and is thought to have been used as a baptismal font for the Taurobolium, the bull-blood-based baptism of the Kybele cult. The interpretation was based on, among other things, the description of the ritual by the Roman poet Prudentius.
In addition, small votive figures were found that have been interpreted not as the representation of Kybele but as local Germanic mother deities, perhaps Sunuxal.
Kybele ("Cybele") was an Anatolian mother goddess, which was possibly venerated already in the Neolithic. Later, the cult was spread in Greece, Thracia and, similar to the Mithras cult, the Roman Imperium. Therefore, it is interesting to assume that the site in Neuss was a place where the Romanized version of Kybele was venerated next to Romanized versions of Germanic deities.
It has to be noted that the interpretation of the site is under debate. Some scientists see it as just an ancient cellar.
Today, the site is conserved beneath the pavilion Fossa Sanguinis and can be visited.
Homepage: Fossa Sanguinis/Kybele Kultstätte
References:
[01] Follmann-Schulz, A.-B.: Die römischen Tempelanlagen in der Provinz Germania inferior. In: H. Temporini - W. Haase (Hrsg.), Aufstieg und Niedergang des römischen Reiches II, Prinzipat, 18.1 (Berlin 1986) 757-759.
[02] Horn, H.G.(Hrsg.): In: Die Römer in Nordrhein-Westfalen (1987).
[03] Noelke, P.: Götter und ihre Kulte im römischen Neuss. In: Neusser Jahrbuch (1989).
[04] Pause, C.: Kritische Anmerkungen zum "Kybele-Kultkeller" in Neuss-Gnadental. In: Neusser Jahrbuch 2001 (2001).
[05] Petrikovits, H.v.: Novaesium. Das römische Neuss. Führer des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn, 3 (1957).
[06] Schwertheim, E.: Die Denkmäler orientalischer Gottheiten im römischen Deutschland. In: Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain Bd. 40 (1974).
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