#palimpsest — Public Fediverse posts

Lovely pair (trio if you count the strange frame) on a wall in Céret, French Catalonia, sent to me by roving correspondent Anna Rothwell.

At the top is a palimpsest with the most prominent layer looking like "Salon Raymond, Rue du Commerce".

Below is "Chocolat Aiguebelle", which appears to be still trading with the slogan "Your favorite chocolate since 1868".

#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Céret #Catalonia #France #Chocolate

Palimpsest Signage, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, NSW, Australia

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/06/07/signage/
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In textual studies, a palimpsest (/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/) is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse[1] in the form of another document.[2] Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or goat skin and was expensive and not readily available, so, in the interest of economy, a page was often re-used by scraping off the previous writing. In colloquial usage, the term palimpsest is also used in architecture, archaeology and geomorphology to denote an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another; for example, a monumental brass on which the blank reverse side has been re-engraved.[3 — Wikipedia

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