{"id":42553,"date":"2018-09-16T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/spqr-what-do-these-letters-mean\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:14:01","slug":"spqr-what-do-these-letters-mean","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/spqr-what-do-these-letters-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"SPQR &#8211; what do these letters mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters <em>SPQR<\/em> can be seen on many monuments, buildings and banners. They mean <em>Senatus Populusque Romanus<\/em>, meaning &#8220;Roman Senate and People&#8221;. These words were a symbol of Roman identity and official name of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>. Abbreviation <em>SPQR<\/em>, until the eagle&#8217;s image became popular, served as the state emblem. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is also possible that the <em>SPQR<\/em> shortcut was also <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/tattoos-in-roman-world\/\">tattooed on the Roman legionaries&#8217; arms<\/a>. <em>SPQR<\/em> appeared on the coins of the period of the Republic, on the banners of the legions and monuments.<\/p>\n<p>The abbreviation was still used during empire times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38345,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-42553","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/42553","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\/42553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=42553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}