Keywords: Cult of Cybele castration clamp.JPG en The goddess Cybele was a great mother goddess adopted by Rome from Asia Minor Her worship like Isis was popular amongst women The worship of Cybele had emotional appeal offering salvation and priests of the goddess castrated themselves in her service A bronze castration clamp found in the Thames at London Bridge is believed to have been used in the cult of Cybele The clamp is decorated with busts of Cybele and her lover Attis while busts of other Roman deities represent the days of the week 1948 Scanned image from http //books google com/books id rvQLAQAAMAAJ q inauthor 22Fritz+Saxl 22 dq inauthor 22Fritz+Saxl 22 source bl ots PHh0XB-lWX sig EPzhGy-m0gWpejZw58kh5K-EVCE hl en sa X ei cPh_UP6JKsXriAfwvIFg ved 0CEwQ6AEwBQ British Art and the Mediterranean Oxford University Press By Fritz Saxl and Rudolf Wittkower Custom license marker 2012 10 18 PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Castration clamps Archigallus Historical surgical instruments Ancient Roman bronzes in London |