Editing Sirona (goddess) (section)

===Temples===

Several temples to Sirona are known. Often these were of the Gallo-Roman [[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#fanum|fanum]] type, an inner [cella] with an outer walkway or [[pronaos]], and were constructed around thermal springs or wells, as at [[Augst]] (Bakker 1990) and [[Nierstein#Culture and sightseeing|Oppenheim-Nierstein]] (Cüppers 1990).

At [[Budapest]] (in antiquity, [[Aquincum]]) a healing shrine at the spring which fed the [[Roman aqueduct|aqueduct]] was dedicated to Apollo (presumably Grannus) and Sirona ({{AE|1982|0806}})

:''Apolini /et/Serana(e)/ T(itus)Iul(ius) MER/CATOR D(e)C(urio)/V[1]LM''

It was established by the emperor [[Caracalla]] when he visited [[Pannonia]], although [[Dio Cassius]] says (Roman Histories, 78.15) that the emperor

:''received no help from Apollo Grannus, nor yet from Aesculapius or Serapis, in spite of his many supplications and his unwearying persistence''.

Two inscriptions describe the establishment of temples to Sirona. From [[Ihn-Niedaltdorf]] an inscription ({{CIL|13|04235}}) records the donation of a building and its furnishings at the dedicant's expense:

:''De[ae Sirona]e / aedem [cum suis or]na/mentis M[3] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito)''

At [[Wiesbaden]] in [[Hesse]] (in antiquity, [[Aquae Mattiacorum]]) an inscription ({{CIL|13|07570}}) records the restoration of a temple by a ''curator'' at his own expense:

:''Sironae / C(aius) Iuli(us) Restitutus / c(urator) templ(i) d(e) s(uo) p(osuit)''

It seems possible that another [[Wiesbaden]] inscription ({{CIL|13|07565}}) that the wife of military commander Porcius Rufianus from [[Mainz]] dedicated to an otherwise unknown goddess ""Diana Mattiaca"" for the healing of her daughter Porcia Rufiana, also refers to Sirona:<ref>Schmid, A., Schmid, R., Möhn, A., Die Römer an Rhein und Main (Frankfurt: Societäts-Verlag, revised edition 2006)</ref>

:''Antonia Postuma / T(iti) Porci Rufiani leg(ati) / [l]eg(ionis) XXII P(rimigeniae) P(iae) F(idelis) [pro sa]lu/te Porciae Rufianae / filiae suae Dianae Mat/tiacae [ex] voto / signum posu[it]''

An elaborate shrine and temple complex at Hochscheid (Cüppers 1990) has already been mentioned. It was built in the second century CE around a spring, which filled a cistern in the temple. The remote location is thought to have been a pilgrimage site (Weisgerber 1975). It was destroyed in the third century, probably during the Germanic incursions of 250-270, and was never rebuilt.