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  1. Greek and Latin inscriptions from the #Roman era used for the pavement of the atrium of the so-called "double church" at #Ephesus, known as the Church of Mary, which dates to the 5th c. It may have been the site of 431 Council of Ephesus.

    📷🇹🇷 flic.kr/p/qtm1Br

    #photography
    #archaeology
    #spolia
    #Turkey
    #travel

    @photography @visualarts @humanities @archaeodons

  2. Greek and Latin inscriptions from the #Roman era used for the pavement of the atrium of the so-called "double church" at #Ephesus, known as the Church of Mary, which dates to the 5th c. It may have been the site of 431 Council of Ephesus. 📷🇹🇷 flic.kr/p/qtm1Br #photography #archaeology #spolia

    Atrium spolia (Ephesus, Turkey...

  3. Basilica of Santa Sabina, #Rome. Built in the 5th c. on the site of a temple of Juno, it is one of the earliest Christian basilicas in Rome and still preserves much of its original #architecture. The columns are #spolia from the temple. 📷🇮🇹 www.flickr.com/photos/60661... #photography #Italy #travel

    Interior of Santa Sabina (Rome...

  4. Basilica of Santa Sabina, #Rome. Built in the 5th c. on the site of a temple of Juno, it is one of the earliest Christian basilicas in Rome and still preserves much of its original #architecture. The columns are #spolia from the temple.

    📷🇮🇹 flickr.com/photos/60661697@N07
    #photography #Italy #travel #ancient

    @photography @travel @humanities @visualarts

  5. Section of a Roman column repurposed as a guard stone (chasse-roue) to keep horse-drawn carts from scraping the building. When I'm next back in Europe I'd really like to find a corner building that is unprotected and shows signs of wheel-hub damage. Avignon, France. #spolia #roman #street #avignon #france #stone #architecture #marble #traffic

  6. In 1660 the bronze doors of Roman Curia in the Forum were moved to the basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. The addition of stars was a nod to Pope Alexander VII and the Chigi family.

    📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/obnDTb

    #photography
    #Rome
    #spolia

  7. The front side of this 4th century strigilated sarcophagus with an image of a seated teacher became the back side when it was used as #spolia in a 15th c. funerary monument in the church of San Lorenzo Maggiore in #Naples

    📷🇮🇹flic.kr/p/2oHZsob

    #photography
    #archaeology
    #Napoli

  8. I wonder who the last person to pass through this door was.

    The builder they got in to block it, I suspect...

    #Pisa #spolia #photography #architecture