Cultul Cybelei. Studiu de caz privind descoperirile arheologice care atestă cultul Cybelei în Dacia romană şi Moesia inferior
The Cult of Cybele Case-Study of the Archaeological Discoveries which Attest the Cult of Cybele in Roman Dacia and in Lower Moesia

Summary/Abstract: Cybele was an ancient Anatolian goddess, venerated as the mistress of the earth, the sky and the sea. Cybele was also a goddess of fecundity and of vital powers, gifted with prophetic virtues. She was called the “Great Mother’’. The cult of Cybele penetrated since the 6th century B.C. in the Greek colonies from the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea. In Dacia, the Roman settlers and soldiers helped to spread the cult of Cybele. Until the conquest of Dacia, the Great Goddess – Cybele and her myth cannot be found on sculptural expressions, as the Dacians’ religions was a monotheistic one. Gradually, after the conquest of Dacia, goddess Cybele and other oriental divinities contributed to the development of the myth by cult practices and mysteries. Goddess Cybele was represented on statuary groups, on votive tiles and reliefs. Examples of settlers who worshipped the cult of Cybele are T. Valerius Marcianus, veteran of the Fifth Macedonian Legion, L. Oppius Maximus, C. Antonius Eutyches etc. The cult of Cybele was worshipped by the settlers from Asia Minor, by Greeks and Romans.

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