{"id":91606,"date":"2021-04-15T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=91606"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:13:07","slug":"strange-openings-on-macellum-columns-in-pozzuoli","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/strange-openings-on-macellum-columns-in-pozzuoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange openings on Macellum columns in Pozzuoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puteoli or today&#8217;s Pozzuoli. Known mainly for the nearby layers of volcanic sand called &#8220;pozzolana&#8221;. Once a magnificent Roman port on the Gulf of Naples. Many different buildings have been preserved there from Roman times. One of such places is <em>Macellum<\/em> the market. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, it was considered the temple of Serapis, from the head of this Greco-Egyptian deity, found there.<br \/>\nExcavation work in this area began on the initiative of the Bourbon dynasty in the middle of the eighteenth century. The researchers&#8217; attention was drawn to small strange holes in the central part of each of the three columns that have survived to our times. It turned out that their <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/military-formations-of-ancient-romans\/battle-and-marching-formations-of-ancient-romans\/\">formation<\/a> is related to a geological phenomenon called &#8220;Bradyseism&#8221;. This process is the slow rise and fall of the coast from sea level due to seismic movements.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Macellum must have been sunk by the sea and then reappeared after some time.<br \/>\nThe above-mentioned holes were formed as a result of the activity of marine mollusks of the Litophag family when Macellum was underwater.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40651,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-91606","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\/91606","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\/91606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=91606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}