{"id":118446,"date":"2023-02-05T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=118446"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T07:51:56","slug":"selenite-valued-material","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/selenite-valued-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Selenite &#8211; valued material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, <b>selenite<\/b> (referred to as <em>lapis specularis<\/em>, meaning &#8220;mirror stone&#8221;) was a valued mineral. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/pliniusz-starszy\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a> emphasized the advantages of this mineral, which could be cut into thin layers through which light with a characteristic soft glow, similar to moonlight, passed.<!--more --><\/p>\n<p>In addition, as mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/pliny-the-elder\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a>, sometimes during the games taking place in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/kultura\/architektura-rzymska\/budowle-rzymskie\/circus-maximus\/\"><em>Circus Maximus<\/em><\/a> very small selenite crystals were scattered on the sand of the arena to beautify the spectacle and add sparkles.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, pieces of selenite were also placed in road paving stones as spot-reflective elements, or &#8220;cat&#8217;s eyes&#8221;, as we call them today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-118446","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\/118446","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\/118446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=118446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}