{"id":97935,"date":"2021-11-02T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=97935"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:20:07","slug":"interesting-roman-mosaic-showing-chariot-race-performed-by-children","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/interesting-roman-mosaic-showing-chariot-race-performed-by-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Roman mosaic showing chariot race performed by children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-mosaic\/\">mosaic<\/a> showing the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/spoleczenstwo\/rozrywka-w-starozytnym-rzymie\/wyscigi-rydwanow\/\">chariot race<\/a> performed by children. The boys drive two-wheeled chariots drawn by birds. The colours of the teams were marked not only by the colour of the boys&#8217; tunics but also by the species of birds: Whites have geese, Reds &#8211; flamingos; Blue &#8211; gallinula; Greens &#8211; pheasants. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Birds have plants around their necks that symbolize the seasons; this way: flamingos have a bunch of flowers, which symbolizes spring; the ears on the goose&#8217;s necks refer to summer; the grapevine on the necks of gallinulas is autumn; olive oil on pheasants is winter. The entire composition refers to the variability of nature and the natural cycles. The winner of the chase was a coachman from the Greens team, who slows down his <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/animals-and-hunting-in-world-of-romans\/\">animals<\/a> and takes the palm of victory.<\/p>\n<p>On the mosaic, apart from competing coachmen and their carts, you can see <em>sparsor<\/em>, which was responsible for cooling the coachman and his animals with water and condensing the sand to reduce the amount of dust.<\/p>\n<p>The mosaic adorned the Roman estate Villa Romana del Casale in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/underfloor-heating-system-in-villa-romana-del-casale-sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":97932,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-97935","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\/97935","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\/97935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=97935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}