{"id":112351,"date":"2022-10-02T08:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T06:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=112351"},"modified":"2022-10-02T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T06:56:57","slug":"octavian-augustus-as-highest-priest","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/octavian-augustus-as-highest-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavian Augustus as highest priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sculpture depicts <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/oktawian-august\/\">emperor Octavian Augustus<\/a> dressed as <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/kolegia-kaplanskie-antycznego-rzymu\/pontifex-maximus\/\">Pontifex Maximus<\/a> (the highest priest). He is wearing a toga and his head is covered. His feet are shod in <em>calcei patricii<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/ancient-romans-footwear\/\">shoes<\/a> worn by the upper class of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/\">Roman society<\/a>). By the leg there is a container (<em>capsa<\/em>) for official documents. The right arm of the princeps indicates that he is in the process of making an offering, holding a sacrificial chalice (<em>patera<\/em>), ready for a libation. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The office of the high priest remained an imperial prerogative until the 4th century CE, it was part of the socio-political program implemented by Octavian, which also introduced the cult of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/genius\/\">Genius<\/a> Augusti.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was probably built at the end of the 1st century BCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":85552,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-112351","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/112351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/112351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=112351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}