Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 223
185 PERIOD M P E R I A L ROMAN sional car, drawn by two lions (fig. 113; Case M). The Case M worship of Kybele in Rome dates from the year 204 B.C., when, in obedience to a SibyUine edict, her image was brought from her Phrygian home and placed in a tem- ple on the Palatine. … first of sorrow and FIG. 114. BRONZE STATUE then of rejoicing com- A CAMILLUS memorated these two events. One of the ceremonies observed in Rome on this occasion was the carrying of the statue of Kybele on her chariot from her temple on the Palatine to the banks of the river Alno, where both were…
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