{"id":8276,"date":"2022-02-15T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:26:06","slug":"a-gladiator-mosaic-at-santa-maria-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-gladiator-mosaic-at-santa-maria-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gladiator Mosaic at Santa Maria Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>I have walked more than once along the Via Appia but I don&#8217;t remember seeing this mosaic. It shows a gladiator with a trident. The name of a gladiator equipped in this manner is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retiarius\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retiarius\">Retiarius<\/a>. Next time you are on the Appian Way consider visiting this Roman Villa, along with the various catacombs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MosaicMonday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MosaicMonday<\/a> a panel depicting a gladiatorial combat, recently discovered in the baths of a 2nd c. CE Roman villa at Santa Maria Nova, along the Appian Way. We see a retiarius (&#39;net-man&#39;) called Montanus and the referee Antonius with his staff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RomanArchaeology?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RomanArchaeology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FksWdT6Bsi\">pic.twitter.com\/FksWdT6Bsi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Giacomo Savani (@GiacomoSavani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiacomoSavani\/status\/1493299818977976324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I have walked more than once along the Via Appia but I don&#8217;t remember seeing this mosaic. It shows a gladiator with a trident. The name of a gladiator equipped in this manner is Retiarius. Next time you are on the Appian Way consider visiting this Roman Villa, along with the various catacombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4944],"tags":[4242,4948,4949],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology-tweets","tag-archeology","tag-mosaic","tag-retiarius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}