{"id":99373,"date":"2021-11-27T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=99373"},"modified":"2021-11-27T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:28:07","slug":"unusual-roman-mosaic-showing-plan-of-building","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/unusual-roman-mosaic-showing-plan-of-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Roman mosaic showing plan of building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-mosaic\/\">mosaic<\/a> showing the plan of the building (or rather its fragments in two pieces), probably public or private baths. The mosaic probably dates from the middle of the 3rd century CE. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The various elements of the building are depicted in coloured <em>tesserae<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the rooms are white<\/li>\n<li>walls are marked in yellow with grey outline<\/li>\n<li>water tanks (baths and pools) &#8211; arranged from green stones<\/li>\n<li>water channels &#8211; blue colour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some markings are unclear. For example, what do <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-numerals\/\">Roman numerals<\/a> mean? Is that the room number? Designation of its function? Or maybe dimensions? Other red symbols are unclear: some seem to mark openings in the walls (windows?), Others maybe heating cable outlet?<\/p>\n<p>I have seen many mosaics before, but I have never come across such a detailed &#8220;plan&#8221; before.<\/p>\n<p>The mosaic was found in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, near Termini Station. I took the photo at the Centrale Montemartini museum during a temporary exhibition. It is permanently part of the collection of the Capitoline Museums, but I do not know if, apart from the temporary exhibition, it is open to visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":99327,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-99373","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\/99373","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\/99373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=99373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}