A 14 km. Lugo city in Santa Eulalia de Dome, is a late Roman period building, rectangular in shape, with a small pool in the center and barrel vault decorated with frescoes of great importance. Outside, a small porch with two columns in antis "precedes the front, which opens a door with a horseshoe arch.
OUTSIDE THE CRYPT The uniqueness in Western Europe the church of Santa Eulalia de Dome has caused multiple interpretations of its original purpose: instead of baths, Nymphaeum Priscillian temple. He was subsequently re-used for Christian purposes and under the name of Santa Eulalia.
The paper proposes an explanation of the architectural and each of its ornamentation and rituals from the analysis of the special architectural and structural configuration of the assembly.
research allows for chaining the interpretation of each of the elements of the monuments according to the Roman rite of the goddess Cybele.
Cibeles, the Latin name of a goddess native to Phrygia in Asia Minor, known to the Greeks as Rhea, the wife of the Titan Cronus and mother of the Olympian gods. Cybele was a goddess of nature and fertility worshiped in Rome as the Great Mother of the Gods. Creative souls, protected against the evil spirit, as full of kindness was helping those who invoked. His cult got importance in Rome from Augustus felt for her special veneration.
INSIDE THE CRYPT Their sanctuaries in the empire had a specific architecture to match the performance of their rites and special baptism or taurobolium. The shape of their sanctuaries have not been studied in general so far, so this paper is a first approximation of an unknown aspect of ancient architecture and Galicia has a sample of outstanding importance and need of a correct and enhancement deserved.
The work has been developed during the PhD course held at the Universidade da Coruña entitled "Architecture in Galicia and under the guidance of Head of Building Technology Dr. Juan Pérez Valcarcel and using the current uprising remains the building drawn by members of the Department of Architectural Representation and Theory of Architecture School of Corunna.
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