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Roman Chickens - Primvs Pavlvs - 11-29-2006
I am looking for actual Roman depictions of chickens. My wife collects chickens and I want to make her something for Christmas.
Re: Roman Chickens - mcbishop - 11-29-2006
Quote:I am looking for actual Roman depictions of chickens. My wife collects chickens and I want to make her something for Christmas.
Sounds like you're into genetic engineering in a big way. Just remember: don't use any frog DNA when resequencing your Roman chickens; that way lies trouble and you could easily end up being chased round the Christmas tree by a 10m-high Tyrannogallus Rex ;-)
Mike Bishop
Re: Roman Chickens - Primvs Pavlvs - 11-29-2006
LOL Actually Mr. Bishop I was thinking about painting it on a piece of wood and making a wall hanging for her.
Re: Roman Chickens - Cornelius Quintus - 11-29-2006
Ave Paul,
or make her a double headed chicken standart in mini size, and put it on a small pole in a flower pot 8)
http://www.ourpasthistory.com/dereleth/ ... e_1/11.htm
Re: Roman Chickens - QFirmus - 11-29-2006
Don't quote me on this, but here is some info from this site
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/SPPA/OldBreeds.html
The Red Dorking
by Craig Russell
While it was only accepted by the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection in 1995, the Red Dorking is the oldest variety of that venerable race of five-toed fowl so well described by the Romans.
This old five-toed breed has known many names in its long history and takes its present name, Dorking, from a market town in the south of England.
From Roman times until the middle of the last century, Dorkings were the zenith of poultry development and Red was the most common color, although in Dorkings that term covers a lot of ground. Red Speckles and Spangles, the various versions of Black Breasted Red and even Brown Reds were included. What was not included was the Black Tailed Red, as in the Rhode Island Red, that is the color pattern most commonly called Red today.
The bird the Romans wrote about was certainly a B. B. Red; and while the description of the female is less certain and they could have been variable, the typical type was probably the stippled hen that we see in the B. B. Red Game today.
Hope that helps!
Re: Roman Chickens - Peroni - 12-01-2006
There's a rather strange mosaic at Brading Roman Villa of a man with a cockerels head!
Cockerel brooches were common too.
http://www.show.me.uk/print/STO101.html
Re: Roman Chickens - Caballo - 12-01-2006
Isn't there a certain M Pompeius, a centurion from Leg XV Appollinaris, who (among his many other duties) was the
keeper of the regimantal sacred chickens?
Thread here http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... =pullarius
and pic (also in Feugere)
![[Image: Rat1.gif]](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.martin/forum/Rat1.gif)
So not only a picture of a chicken , but a miltary sacred chicken!
Cheers
Caballo
Re: Roman Chickens - Cornelius Quintus - 12-01-2006
Ave Paul,
some more chicken, made long before the first one was fried in Kentucky:
Ravenna:
http://world.std.com/~kcl/smMosaic8chicken.jpg
Jerash /Philadelphia (6th century)
http://www.stoa.org/albums/album171/6_G.sized.jpg
Naples museum
http://www.vroma.org/images/jwalker_images/jw-109.jpg
Ostia
http://www.ostia-antica.org/regio4/2/2-11_6.jpg
unknown
http://ec-dejavu.ru/images/c/cock_2.jpg
Re: Roman Chickens - Chuck Russell - 12-01-2006
sacred chicken of antioch.
paul likez chickens. and sheep too. but only on thursdays. he saves the weekends for farm implaments