For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

antmoose's tweet image. For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

St James's Church, Stedham One of the finest collections of C17 & 18 gravestones I’ve seen, along with a sarcophagus & medieval remnants propped up on the south wall hints at what might have been before a dreary 1850 rebuild Can you spot the crosses in the wall? #SpoliaSunday

InDamnatio's tweet image. St James's Church, Stedham

One of the finest collections of C17 & 18 gravestones I’ve seen, along with a sarcophagus & medieval remnants propped up on the south wall hints at what might have been before a dreary 1850 rebuild

Can you spot the crosses in the wall?

#SpoliaSunday

Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework #SpoliaSunday #StoneworkSunday

InDamnatio's tweet image. Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework 

#SpoliaSunday
#StoneworkSunday
InDamnatio's tweet image. Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework 

#SpoliaSunday
#StoneworkSunday

For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.

passienus's tweet image. For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.
passienus's tweet image. For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.

#SpoliaSunday Basílica dei Santi Quattro Coronati, #Roma Columnas y capiteles jónicos de finales del siglo IV o inicios del V reutilizados en la fase de Pascual II (1099-1118), actualmente visibles en el lado norte el segundo patio.

romamedieval's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday Basílica dei Santi Quattro Coronati, #Roma  Columnas y capiteles jónicos de finales del siglo IV o inicios del V reutilizados en la fase de Pascual II (1099-1118), actualmente visibles en el lado norte el segundo patio.

And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

And very, very beautiful. The church was lost in a complex of buildings which where once used as a school so Mouse is not sure where this came from🐭 #SpoliaSunday

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And very, very beautiful. The church was lost in a complex of buildings which where once used as a school so Mouse is not sure where this came from🐭
#SpoliaSunday

Some #Spolia for #SpoliaSunday from #StMaryWedmore #Somerset Set in the northern chapel arch from chancel. Early C13. A cross bishop confronts the mitre maker who mis-measured his head #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Some #Spolia for #SpoliaSunday from #StMaryWedmore #Somerset 

Set in the northern chapel arch from chancel. Early C13. A cross bishop confronts the mitre maker who mis-measured his head #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

Para el #SpoliaSunday de hoy os traigo las columnas y capiteles de la pequeña y desconocida iglesia de Santa María en Monterone en Roma. Muy cerca del Area Sacra de Largo Argentina y el Panteón.

romamedieval's tweet image. Para el #SpoliaSunday de hoy os traigo las columnas y capiteles de la pequeña y desconocida iglesia de Santa María en Monterone en Roma.
Muy cerca del Area Sacra de Largo Argentina y el Panteón.

Fragments of Romanesque chevron pattern relief decoration appear in the walls of #StMichaelWilsford. These were left through High and Late medieval rebuilds as a clue to what went before but in this case this is a Victorian rebuild #SpoliaSunday #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Fragments of Romanesque chevron pattern relief decoration appear in the walls of #StMichaelWilsford. These were left through High and Late medieval rebuilds as a clue to what went before but in this case this is a Victorian rebuild
#SpoliaSunday #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday

Mouse hope this doesn't #SpoliaSunday. Rather lovely but now redundant Decorated period corbel. Mouse would love one. The chancel #StMaryBerrow #Somerset

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Mouse hope this doesn't #SpoliaSunday. Rather lovely but now redundant Decorated period corbel. Mouse would love one. The chancel #StMaryBerrow #Somerset

This is the closest to identical #TwitterSnap Mouse has ever had, courtesy of the ever engaging @Portaspeciosa. Mouse's favourite collection of Saxon and Norman Romanesque #Spolia she ever see. And for #SpoliaSunday too! Hope it doesn't spolia Sunday TTM🐭

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. This is the closest to identical #TwitterSnap Mouse has ever had, courtesy of the ever engaging @Portaspeciosa. Mouse's favourite collection of Saxon and Norman Romanesque #Spolia she ever see. And for #SpoliaSunday too! Hope it doesn't spolia Sunday TTM🐭

#SundayStonework from Wirksworth, Derbys.

Portaspeciosa's tweet image. #SundayStonework from Wirksworth, Derbys.


Non credo ci siano due colonne identiche in Santa Maria in Cosmedin… #SpoliaSunday #Roma 🤍 #Rome

caputmundiHeidi's tweet image. Non credo ci siano due colonne identiche in Santa Maria in Cosmedin… #SpoliaSunday 
#Roma 🤍
#Rome

#SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.

Detail of the engaged shaft clearly shows that it's #Spolia #SpoliaSunday from #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Detail of the engaged shaft clearly shows that it's #Spolia
#SpoliaSunday from #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset

East of north aisle #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset for #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework Described as a C11 piscina by the Listing, it isn't. It is a Norman Romanesque engaged column with cable moulded shaft with carved base and capital between a more recent plinth and basin

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of north aisle #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset for #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework 

Described as a C11 piscina by the Listing, it isn't. It is a Norman Romanesque engaged column with cable moulded shaft with carved base and capital between a more recent plinth and basin


#SpoliaSunday takes us up the #Aventine hill in #Rome to the splendid though brutally over-restored #palaeochristian basilica of #SantaSabina, where an ancient weight measure does service as a relic of diabolic frustration.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday takes us up the #Aventine hill in #Rome to the splendid though brutally over-restored #palaeochristian basilica of #SantaSabina, where an ancient weight measure does service as a relic of diabolic frustration.

East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

#SpoliaSunday mostra a crueldade da reutilização de #spolia e hoje não é diferente.Aqui,sob a "nova ala" do Ospedale S. Giovanni em #Roma, do séc XVIII,encontramos uma #pilastra de mármore do séc II d.C. embutida na fundação,provavelmente da #domus da família de #MarcusAurelius.

#SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.


#SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday shows the ruthlessness of #spolia reuse and today is no different. Here under the "new ward" of the Ospedale S. Giovanni in #Rome, from the C18, we find a C2 CE marble #pilaster built into the foundation, probably from the family #domus of #MarcusAurelius.

P/um #SpoliaSunday atrasado,esta parede abriga a coleção de antiguidades de #AntonioCanova, o gde escultor neoclássico dos séc XVIII e XIX,agora embutida na parede de seu estúdio. Muitas peças de sarcófagos e parte de #estátua funerária do século I encontrada em #Roma e arredores

For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

antmoose's tweet image. For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.


For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

antmoose's tweet image. For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

#SpoliaSunday nos presenteia c/um #sarcófago de 200-225 d.C. decorado c/as #Musas,mas esculpido de novo em 3 lados p/ser reutilizado como túmulo de Jacopa dei Prefetti di Vico em 1398,cunhada do então papa #Bonifácio IX #Tomacelli; caixão de prestígio p/uma mulher poderosa. #Roma

#SpoliaSunday gives us a #sarcophagus from 200-225 CE decorated with the #Muses but recarved on three sides for reuse as the tomb of Jacopa dei Prefetti di Vico in 1398, sister-in-law of the reigning pope #Boniface IX #Tomacelli, a prestige coffin for a powerful woman. #Rome

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday gives us a #sarcophagus from 200-225 CE decorated with the #Muses but recarved on three sides for reuse as the tomb of Jacopa dei Prefetti di Vico in 1398, sister-in-law of the reigning pope #Boniface IX #Tomacelli, a prestige coffin for a powerful woman. #Rome


#SpoliaSunday gives us a #sarcophagus from 200-225 CE decorated with the #Muses but recarved on three sides for reuse as the tomb of Jacopa dei Prefetti di Vico in 1398, sister-in-law of the reigning pope #Boniface IX #Tomacelli, a prestige coffin for a powerful woman. #Rome

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday gives us a #sarcophagus from 200-225 CE decorated with the #Muses but recarved on three sides for reuse as the tomb of Jacopa dei Prefetti di Vico in 1398, sister-in-law of the reigning pope #Boniface IX #Tomacelli, a prestige coffin for a powerful woman. #Rome

O #SpoliaSunday leva ao vicolo dell'Atleta em #Trastevere, #Roma, onde um pedaço da fachada do #sarcófago com as conhecidas curvas #strigiladas que representam as ondulações do rio #Styx foi reutilizado no século XIV como parede lateral de uma entrada, agora murada.

#SpoliaSunday leads into the vicolo dell'Atleta in #Trastevere in #Rome, where a piece of #sarcophagus front with the familiar #strigilate curves that represent the ripples of the river #Styx was reused in the C14 as the side wall of an entrance, now walled up.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday leads into the vicolo dell'Atleta in #Trastevere in #Rome, where a piece of #sarcophagus front with the familiar #strigilate curves that represent the ripples of the river #Styx was reused in the C14 as the side wall of an entrance, now walled up.


#SpoliaSunday leads into the vicolo dell'Atleta in #Trastevere in #Rome, where a piece of #sarcophagus front with the familiar #strigilate curves that represent the ripples of the river #Styx was reused in the C14 as the side wall of an entrance, now walled up.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday leads into the vicolo dell'Atleta in #Trastevere in #Rome, where a piece of #sarcophagus front with the familiar #strigilate curves that represent the ripples of the river #Styx was reused in the C14 as the side wall of an entrance, now walled up.

He's a Cluniac, #Cluniac, on the floor / And he's praying like he's never prayed before! #SpoliaSunday takes us to the #spolia-rich #crypt of #SantAlessio on the #Aventine in #Rome, where a reformist community of monks reused a #Romanesque #ciborium to built the abbot's #throne.

antmoose's tweet image. He's a Cluniac, #Cluniac, on the floor / And he's praying like he's never prayed before! #SpoliaSunday takes us to the #spolia-rich #crypt of #SantAlessio on the #Aventine in #Rome, where a reformist community of monks reused a #Romanesque #ciborium to built the abbot's #throne.

#SpoliaSunday takes us up the #Aventine hill in #Rome to the splendid though brutally over-restored #palaeochristian basilica of #SantaSabina, where an ancient weight measure does service as a relic of diabolic frustration.

antmoose's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday takes us up the #Aventine hill in #Rome to the splendid though brutally over-restored #palaeochristian basilica of #SantaSabina, where an ancient weight measure does service as a relic of diabolic frustration.

Shared for #SpoliaSunday Trieste Cathedral in Italy

Roman spolia busts, framing the doorway of Trieste Cathedral.

OSaumarezSmith's tweet image. Roman spolia busts, framing the doorway of Trieste Cathedral.


Shared for #SpoliaSunday

#SundayStonework Spolia. Georgian stable detail using stone reclaimed from Strata Florida Abbey, Cards. Segments are recut Dundry stone. Ring detailing: probably medieval, reclaimed as seen; Malltraeth sandstone (Anglesey). Shale and greywacke rubble.

TimPalmerEO's tweet image. #SundayStonework Spolia.  Georgian stable detail using stone reclaimed from Strata Florida Abbey, Cards.  Segments are recut Dundry stone.  Ring detailing: probably medieval, reclaimed as seen; Malltraeth sandstone (Anglesey).  Shale and greywacke rubble.


#Spolia raramente era reutilizada só 1vez.Neste #SpoliaSunday,estamos no #MuseodelleCiviltà p/admirar a esplêndida escultura deste #cibório #românico,ou baldaquino de altar,mármore retirado de alguma antiga estrutura #romana e após reutilizado como parte da estrutura de 1retábulo

#Spolia was rarely reused only once. For this #SpoliaSunday we're in the #MuseodelleCiviltà to look at the splendid carving of this #Romanesque #ciborium or altar canopy, the marble taken from some ancient #Roman structure, and later reused again as part of an altarpiece frame.

antmoose's tweet image. #Spolia was rarely reused only once. For this #SpoliaSunday we're in the #MuseodelleCiviltà to look at the splendid carving of this #Romanesque #ciborium or altar canopy, the marble taken from some ancient #Roman structure, and later reused again as part of an altarpiece frame.


#Spolia was rarely reused only once. For this #SpoliaSunday we're in the #MuseodelleCiviltà to look at the splendid carving of this #Romanesque #ciborium or altar canopy, the marble taken from some ancient #Roman structure, and later reused again as part of an altarpiece frame.

antmoose's tweet image. #Spolia was rarely reused only once. For this #SpoliaSunday we're in the #MuseodelleCiviltà to look at the splendid carving of this #Romanesque #ciborium or altar canopy, the marble taken from some ancient #Roman structure, and later reused again as part of an altarpiece frame.

Shared for #SpoliaSunday

#ReliefWednesday 1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head. Now in All Hallows by the Tower: found on foreshore downstream where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station - nr the church - was dumped.

bwallower's tweet image. #ReliefWednesday
1st C #Roman tombstone set up by 'Demetrius to Heraclia his wife at expense of her own estate', missing her head.
Now in All Hallows by the Tower: found on foreshore downstream where spolia from 19th C building of Tower Hill station - nr the church - was dumped.


For #SpoliaSunday, we're on site in the #BathsofDiocletian in #Rome looking at #spolia from the same Baths, in a part that belongs to the church of #SantaMariadegliAngeli and not to the @MNR_museo. This courtyard has an odd jumble of ancient #marble.

antmoose's tweet image. For #SpoliaSunday, we're on site in the #BathsofDiocletian in #Rome looking at #spolia from the same Baths, in a part that belongs to the church of #SantaMariadegliAngeli and not to the @MNR_museo. This courtyard has an odd jumble of ancient #marble.

East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon
TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon

Shared for #SpoliaSunday The great mosque of Kairouan in #Tunisia

The minaret - with Roman spolia inc. inscriptions in Latin on the lower section - of the great mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia which some people think was built to resemble a Roman lighthouse. Mosque originally built in the year 670 AD with lots of spolia inc many ancient columns

decimusclaudius's tweet image. The minaret - with Roman spolia inc. inscriptions in Latin on the lower section - of the great mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia which some people think was built to resemble a Roman lighthouse. Mosque originally built in the year 670 AD with lots of spolia inc many ancient columns


لا توجد نتائج لـ "#spoliasunday"

For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

antmoose's tweet image. For a belated #SpoliaSunday, this wall holds the collection of antiquities owned by #AntonioCanova, the great C18-C19 sculptor of #neoclassicism, now set into the wall of his studio. Many pieces of sarcophagi, and part of a C1 CE #funerary #statue found in and around #Rome.

Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework #SpoliaSunday #StoneworkSunday

InDamnatio's tweet image. Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework 

#SpoliaSunday
#StoneworkSunday
InDamnatio's tweet image. Trilussa was a Roman poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

His tomb at Verano is topped with an ancient sarcophagus & his memorial in the district of Trastevere, in the piazza named after him, incorporates other ancient stonework 

#SpoliaSunday
#StoneworkSunday

St James's Church, Stedham One of the finest collections of C17 & 18 gravestones I’ve seen, along with a sarcophagus & medieval remnants propped up on the south wall hints at what might have been before a dreary 1850 rebuild Can you spot the crosses in the wall? #SpoliaSunday

InDamnatio's tweet image. St James's Church, Stedham

One of the finest collections of C17 & 18 gravestones I’ve seen, along with a sarcophagus & medieval remnants propped up on the south wall hints at what might have been before a dreary 1850 rebuild

Can you spot the crosses in the wall?

#SpoliaSunday

For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.

passienus's tweet image. For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.
passienus's tweet image. For #SpoliaSunday, the famous Medusa heads propping up columns in the Basilica Cistern underneath Istanbul. The 6th-century cistern supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople and would have been flooded - so no one would have seen the two drowned gorgons.

East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon
TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

The remnants of piscina or possibly niches have been incorporated into the wall. The example to the left is a rather wonky circular arch and could at a pinch be Saxon

East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of nave by chancel arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #SpoliaSunday

Chamfered #Ogee arches, somewhat erratically carved, built into the wall #Spolia

#SpoliaSunday Spolia, derived from the #Latin term for "looting," denotes the deliberate reuse of architectural elements in subsequent constructions. While prevalent in Late #Antiquity, its antecedents trace back in time. Beyond its economic dimensions, spoliation embodies…

ArchaeoHistoria's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday

Spolia, derived from the #Latin term for "looting," denotes the deliberate reuse of architectural elements in subsequent constructions. While prevalent in Late #Antiquity, its antecedents trace back in time. Beyond its economic dimensions, spoliation embodies…

Non credo ci siano due colonne identiche in Santa Maria in Cosmedin… #SpoliaSunday #Roma 🤍 #Rome

caputmundiHeidi's tweet image. Non credo ci siano due colonne identiche in Santa Maria in Cosmedin… #SpoliaSunday 
#Roma 🤍
#Rome

And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And finally from Mouse on this fine Sunday a curiously located piece of #Spolia to complement your #SpoliaSunday. #SpoliaAlert! from the east end of #StMaryStapleford, a totally random aumbry (pointed trefoil no less). What on God's green earth? #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

#SpoliaSunday Basílica dei Santi Quattro Coronati, #Roma Columnas y capiteles jónicos de finales del siglo IV o inicios del V reutilizados en la fase de Pascual II (1099-1118), actualmente visibles en el lado norte el segundo patio.

romamedieval's tweet image. #SpoliaSunday Basílica dei Santi Quattro Coronati, #Roma  Columnas y capiteles jónicos de finales del siglo IV o inicios del V reutilizados en la fase de Pascual II (1099-1118), actualmente visibles en el lado norte el segundo patio.

Fragments of Romanesque chevron pattern relief decoration appear in the walls of #StMichaelWilsford. These were left through High and Late medieval rebuilds as a clue to what went before but in this case this is a Victorian rebuild #SpoliaSunday #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Fragments of Romanesque chevron pattern relief decoration appear in the walls of #StMichaelWilsford. These were left through High and Late medieval rebuilds as a clue to what went before but in this case this is a Victorian rebuild
#SpoliaSunday #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday

And very, very beautiful. The church was lost in a complex of buildings which where once used as a school so Mouse is not sure where this came from🐭 #SpoliaSunday

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. And very, very beautiful. The church was lost in a complex of buildings which where once used as a school so Mouse is not sure where this came from🐭
#SpoliaSunday

Some #Spolia for #SpoliaSunday from #StMaryWedmore #Somerset Set in the northern chapel arch from chancel. Early C13. A cross bishop confronts the mitre maker who mis-measured his head #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Some #Spolia for #SpoliaSunday from #StMaryWedmore #Somerset 

Set in the northern chapel arch from chancel. Early C13. A cross bishop confronts the mitre maker who mis-measured his head #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

Never too late for #spoliasunday: I loved to spot the recycled ancient fragments in #medieval #Rome. @romamedieval

Teszelszky's tweet image. Never too late for #spoliasunday: I loved to spot the recycled ancient fragments in #medieval #Rome. @romamedieval
Teszelszky's tweet image. Never too late for #spoliasunday: I loved to spot the recycled ancient fragments in #medieval #Rome. @romamedieval

Detail of the engaged shaft clearly shows that it's #Spolia #SpoliaSunday from #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Detail of the engaged shaft clearly shows that it's #Spolia
#SpoliaSunday from #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset

East of north aisle #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset for #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework Described as a C11 piscina by the Listing, it isn't. It is a Norman Romanesque engaged column with cable moulded shaft with carved base and capital between a more recent plinth and basin

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. East of north aisle #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset for #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework 

Described as a C11 piscina by the Listing, it isn't. It is a Norman Romanesque engaged column with cable moulded shaft with carved base and capital between a more recent plinth and basin


Mouse hope this doesn't #SpoliaSunday. Rather lovely but now redundant Decorated period corbel. Mouse would love one. The chancel #StMaryBerrow #Somerset

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. Mouse hope this doesn't #SpoliaSunday. Rather lovely but now redundant Decorated period corbel. Mouse would love one. The chancel #StMaryBerrow #Somerset

This is the closest to identical #TwitterSnap Mouse has ever had, courtesy of the ever engaging @Portaspeciosa. Mouse's favourite collection of Saxon and Norman Romanesque #Spolia she ever see. And for #SpoliaSunday too! Hope it doesn't spolia Sunday TTM🐭

TheHistoryMouse's tweet image. This is the closest to identical #TwitterSnap Mouse has ever had, courtesy of the ever engaging @Portaspeciosa. Mouse's favourite collection of Saxon and Norman Romanesque #Spolia she ever see. And for #SpoliaSunday too! Hope it doesn't spolia Sunday TTM🐭

#SundayStonework from Wirksworth, Derbys.

Portaspeciosa's tweet image. #SundayStonework from Wirksworth, Derbys.


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