Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 8

Object name: religious dedication

Description: Small rude altar with plain sides.

Period: Roman

Place found: Cathedral Close, Chester

Date: 1862

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 26 inches; width 12 inches

Inscription: DEAE / MAT / RIB DO / NVM
Daea Matrib(us) donum
To the Mother Goddesses a gift
The 'Mother Goddesses' were German, or perhaps originally Celtic, deities much worshipped on the Rhine, in Roman Britain, and elsewhere. The Roman troops in our island who had been recruited in Germany probably brought the cult over with them. Latin