{"id":90093,"date":"2021-02-24T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T20:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&p=90093"},"modified":"2021-02-24T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T20:29:34","slug":"tablet-with-instructions-for-deceased","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/tablet-with-instructions-for-deceased\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet with instructions for deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, archaeologists have found extremely interesting finds throughout the Mediterranean, including Sicily<\/a>, southern Italy, northern Greece<\/a> and Crete. We are talking about tablets with instructions for the dead, which were to help souls on their journey to the afterlife.<\/p>\n

These types of objects were placed on the chest, hand or mouth of the deceased in the grave. The short text is a some kind of ticket with information about the status of the deceased and a hint of where the soul should go in the underworld.<\/p>\n

The photo shows an object that dates back to the 4th century BCE. The golden plate is inscribed with a dialogue in Greek. The deceased suggests that he is thirsty and is looking for a good source from which to drink.<\/p>\n

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– I am parched with thirst and perishing!
\n– Then come drink of me, the Ever-Flowing Spring, on the right\u2014a bright cypress is there. Who are you? Where are you from?
\n– I am the son of Earth and Starry Heaven. But my race is heavenly..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The mentioned spring is meant to be a place where the deceased can drink water that preserves memories.<\/p>\n

After the thirst is satisfied, the soul must respond appropriately to the guardians of the underworld so that it can be introduced into the underworld.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the discovered tablets are mutually exclusive many times, and the deceased has to either go left or right; cypress, on the other hand, is once taken as a cue not to drink from the spring, and sometimes it is a good place. As you can see, the ancient Greeks themselves did not know what to expect after death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":90090,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-90093","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\/90093","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\/90093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=90093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}