{"id":99675,"date":"2021-12-05T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=odkrycia-rzymskie&#038;p=99675"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:52:41","slug":"beautiful-roman-mosaic-discovered-beneath-an-english-farm","status":"publish","type":"odkrycia-rzymskie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/beautiful-roman-mosaic-discovered-beneath-an-english-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Roman mosaic discovered beneath an English farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-mosaic\/\">mosaic<\/a> has been discovered in the county of Rutland (central England) that shows the clash between Achilles and Hector. Object discovered on the grounds of an English farm. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is the first mosaic discovered in Britain to show a scene from the &#8220;Iliad&#8221;. The property adorned the dining room of a luxurious <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-house\/\">Roman villa<\/a>. According to the researchers, the mosaic was damaged by fire and subsequent construction works, but it has retained its colours until our times.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, however, did not damage the fragment of the mosaic, where we see lying dead and naked Hector, whom Achilles &#8211; according to the &#8220;Iliad&#8221; &#8211; will then tie to his chariot and drag along the walls of Troy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":99673,"template":"","class_list":["post-99675","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\/99675","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\/99675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}