Mother goddesses and their votive forms

The scholarly book "Mother Goddesses and Their Votive Forms" by Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel offers a comprehensive analysis of the dedications to the ancient deities 'MATRES' and 'MATRONAE'. These dedications, found in many museums, originally stem from the Celtic cultural sphere and have been transmitted over time in Latin and, to some extent, in Germanic forms. This work examines for the first time 159 name types without local and linguistic restrictions. The author employs the principles of comparative linguistics to develop new etymologies and illuminate the diversification and functions of these deities. The typological study is complemented by sections that address the changing votive forms, the equivalents of the main theonym, and their distribution. Additionally, the structure, phonetics, and semantics of the epithets, as well as the research history of the mother goddesses, are discussed.