{"id":3291,"date":"2025-03-21T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/?post_type=percorsi&#038;p=3291"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:04:47","slug":"the-building-of-the-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"percorsi","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/trails\/sport-and-athletes-in-ancient-ostia\/the-building-of-the-wrestlers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Building of the Wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"248\">Professional wrestlers belonged to guilds. In Ostia, a building known as the <em data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"189\">Caseggiato dei Lottatori<\/em> was likely the headquarters of this athletes\u2019 association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"454\">A small mosaic flooring the entrance room depicts two wrestlers: it is precisely from this mosaic that the building\u2019s interpretation as the guild\u2019s seat for this category of professional athletes derives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"712\">The mosaic, framed by a braided border, shows a wrestling scene between two figures whose names are inscribed: Artemi and Sacal. One of them is the victor, arms raised, while the other is defeated. The building is located along Via della Fortuna Annonaria.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a29eaa\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a29eaa;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-331 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001271_mosaico-lottatori-img002346-872x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001271_mosaico-lottatori-img002346-872x1024.webp 872w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001271_mosaico-lottatori-img002346-255x300.webp 255w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001271_mosaico-lottatori-img002346-768x902.webp 768w, https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001271_mosaico-lottatori-img002346.webp 1274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Il mosaico dei lottatori. Dal Caseggiato dei Lottatori<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional wrestlers belonged to guilds. In Ostia, a building known as the Caseggiato dei Lottatori was likely the headquarters of this athletes\u2019 association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":332,"parent":3283,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-3291","percorsi","type-percorsi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/percorsi\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/percorsi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/percorsi"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/percorsi\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}