{"id":84622,"date":"2020-11-11T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=84622"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:03:05","slug":"fresco-depicting-lares","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/fresco-depicting-lares\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresco depicting Lares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman fresco depicting the pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/lares\/\">Lares<\/a> and the sacred serpent from the House of the Vettii in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/pompeii\/\">Pompeii<\/a>. Object dated to the 1st century BCE and was located in Lararium. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lares are holding a riton (a drinking vessel) in their hands; and the figure in the center, with a garment on his head &#8211; probably a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/genius\/\">Genius<\/a> (an ancestor&#8217;s spirit) &#8211; holds a libation platter and incense in his hand for <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/suovetaurilia-sacrifice\/\">sacrifice<\/a>. The snake, in turn, symbolizes fertility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/lary\/\"><em>Lares<\/em><\/a> functioned in Roman culture as mysterious spirits that were responsible for various aspects of social life. The lares could look after houses (<em>Lares Faimiliares<\/em>), fields (<em>Lares Rurales<\/em>) or, for example, a city (<em>Lares Publici<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":84620,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-84622","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\/84622","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\/84622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=84622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}