{"id":45242,"date":"2018-11-12T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/ancile-shield-of-mars\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:38:19","slug":"ancile-shield-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/ancile-shield-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancile &#8211; shield of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><em>Ancile<\/em><\/b> was the oval shield of the same <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mars\/\">the god Mars<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/jowisz\/\">Jupiter<\/a> offered to the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-kingdom\/roman-kings\/\">king<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/numa-pompiliusz\/\">Numa Pompilius<\/a>, the second in the history ruler of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. According to the messages, the capital city was to exist for as long as <em>ancile<\/em> was safe. On the advice of the nymph Egeria, Numa had eleven identical shields to prevent theft. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Priests Salii were guarding the shields. Every year in March and October they carried shields in solemn processions organized in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/honor\/\">honor<\/a> of the god <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mars\/\">Mars<\/a>, and in their full weaponry they performed an ancient war dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36320,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-45242","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\/45242","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\/45242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=45242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}