The mysterious grotto of the Serapeum at Villa Adriana in Tivoli (not yet available for security reasons) will be open to visitors from March.<\/p>\n
An interesting anecdote applies to the Serapeum and its peculiar shape of the dome. A prominent architect creating in the times of Trajan<\/a> and Hadrian<\/a> – Apollodorus of Damascus<\/a>, criticized the design of the Hadrian’s dome, comparing it to the “pumpkin”. The full quote is: “Go away and draw your pumpkins. You know nothing about these [architectural] matters” (from Cassius Dio).<\/p>\n Where did the name of the Serapeum come from? During his reigns (117-138 CE), Hadrian traveled a lot around the Empire. The famous Hadrian’s villa<\/a> had numerous constructions that received names depending on the places visited by the emperor. In Egypt<\/a>, the Serapeum was the temple of Serapis. The remains of the cave with a dome are located next to a pond called Canopus – from the Egyptian city of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48478,"template":"","class_list":["post-48482","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/48482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/48482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}