{"id":6476,"date":"2026-01-09T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:26:58","slug":"larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;area dei culti orientali e il quartiere residenziale di Porta Laurentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district south of the Forum took on a prevalently private character already in the Republican period. A significant number of luxurious\u00a0<em>domus<\/em>\u00a0(residences) were built along the southern stretch of the Cardo Maximus, in addition to baths and buildings with an artisanal and commercial function.<\/p>\n<p>In an outlying area of the city, near the Porta Laurentina, a sanctuary was built to Cybele or Magna Mater, the fertility goddess of eastern origin who was particularly popular in Ostia during the Imperial period.<\/p>\n<p>The sacred area, of triangular shape, was the city\u2019s largest; within, temples and shrines dedicated to the cult of Cybele and the gods associated with her were erected. The cult buildings were arranged around a large open space in which the religious rituals took place, among which a pre-eminent role was reserved for sacred processions and bull sacrifices (<em>taurobolia<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"cfae8c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #cfae8c;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5093 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1495\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687.webp 1495w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687-224x300.webp 224w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687-765x1024.webp 765w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687-768x1027.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/808_07-1-img001687-1148x1536.webp 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1495px) 100vw, 1495px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district south of the Forum took on a prevalently private character already in the Republican period. A significant number of luxurious\u00a0domus\u00a0(residences) were built along the southern stretch of the Cardo Maximus, in addition to baths and buildings with an artisanal and commercial function. In an outlying area of the city, near the Porta Laurentina,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6408,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476\/revisions\/6477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}