Roman Chickens

[Primvs Pavlvs]

I am looking for actual Roman depictions of chickens. My wife collects chickens and I want to make her something for Christmas.

[mcbishop]

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

[Primvs Pavlvs]

LOL Actually Mr. Bishop I was thinking about painting it on a piece of wood and making a wall hanging for her.

[Cornelius Quintus]

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

[QFirmus]

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!

[Peroni]

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

[Caballo]

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)

So not only a picture of a chicken , but a miltary sacred chicken!

Cheers

Caballo

[Cornelius Quintus]

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

[Chuck Russell]

sacred chicken of antioch.


paul likez chickens. and sheep too. but only on thursdays. he saves the weekends for farm implaments