{"id":6591,"date":"2026-01-12T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/cd-sacellum-dei-lares-augusti\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:15:32","slug":"cd-sacellum-dei-lares-augusti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/cd-sacellum-dei-lares-augusti\/","title":{"rendered":"Cd. Sacellum dei Lares Augusti"},"content":{"rendered":"

This circular monument stands at the centre of the Forum square and is traditionally interpreted as the shrine of the\u00a0Lares Augusti<\/em>\u00a0(the gods who protected the emperor).<\/p>\n

The identification is based on the attribution to this monument of an inscription, not found\u00a0in situ<\/em>, commemorating the construction of a temple dedicated to this cult in around the mid-1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD.<\/p>\n

Another theory identifies the monument as a nymphaeum, in part based on the presence of an internal coating of hydraulic lime.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tInscription probably belonging to the marble revetment of the shrine\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tInscription probably belonging to the architrave of the shrine with a dedication to the Lares Augusti\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This circular monument stands at the centre of the Forum square and is traditionally interpreted as the shrine of the\u00a0Lares Augusti\u00a0(the gods who protected the emperor). The identification is based on the attribution to this monument of an inscription, not found\u00a0in situ, commemorating the construction of a temple dedicated to this cult in around the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591\/revisions\/6592"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}