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Spolia in Barcelona's third-century wall.
Picture of wall
August 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Byzantine spolia (reused marble) at San Marco in Venice
June 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Roman spolia in the foundation of the Church of St. Donatus in Zadar, Croatia. 📸 me
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Roman spolia in the foundation of the Church of St. Donatus in Zadar, Croatia.
January 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Victrici Spolia
May 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
*ok it was spolia but my joke is still funny
June 28, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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For further reading on the subject, I really recommend Kacie M. Alaga’s thesis on interpretations of Roman spolia in Britain (PDF). scad.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet...
November 12, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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Spolia at Trieste Cathedral.
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Bits of a Roman temple reused in Trieste Cathedral, Italy.
June 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
junkycosmonaut.bsky.social
Spolia, from a Liverpool neighbourhood to ancient Rome

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September 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
iobserve.bsky.social
#Roma #Spolia #Aracoeli
May 14, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Me estoy descargando "Spolia" de Beatriz Alcaná. ¡Recomendado! 📚 @beatrizalcana.bsky.social @ebuki.es
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April 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Lektu cerró (💔), pero "Spolia" ya está disponible en @ebuki.es.

¡Mil gracias, @granbosque.bsky.social! 😊

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1918, Antártica Occidental. La doctora Mavridis llega al archiginnasio de la Universidad de Concordia. Su intención es entrevistarse con el profesor Hélder M...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
thehistorymouse.bsky.social
You should #AlwaysLookUp. Otherwise you would miss little #Spolia curiosities like this #StMichaelSopley #Hampshire
December 6, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Me estoy descargando "Spolia" de Beatriz Alcaná. ¡Recomendado! 📚 @beatrizalcana.bsky.social @ebuki.es
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September 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Me estoy descargando "Spolia" de Beatriz Alcaná. ¡Recomendado! 📚 @beatrizalcana.bsky.social @ebuki.es
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July 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
petercampbell.bsky.social
Alright archaeology Bluesky, what are your best examples of spolia? Here are some great examples from Pula, Croatia, in the cathedral and city walls.
October 6, 2023 at 3:54 PM
simonelliott20.bsky.social
Today's love from the Roman world! Fabulous spolia in Corbridge!
April 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
benpohl.bsky.social
The Byzantine monastery of Daphni (Δαφνί), founded in the late 6th and rebuilt in the 11th century, complete with a scriptorium, library room, early Komnenian mosaics, and antique spolia going back to the 4th century BC.
April 9, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Some excellent spolia.
Repurposed friezes above and around a lintel featuring lion, deer, rabbit. Cut letters above.
April 3, 2026 at 11:35 AM
simonelliott20.bsky.social
Today's love from the Roman world! Watchtower built from spolia, Madauros, Atlas Mts, Algeria!!!
February 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
chasesolidago.bsky.social
so what are we turning all that stone into, after the fact?

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April 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
classicalalan.bsky.social
Let's start the week with some splendid spolia. This porch was built onto the schoolhouse in Rochester, Northumberland in 1852. Look closely and you will see that is was in fact largely constructed from ancient Roman stones taken from the nearby fort known in ancient times as Bremenium. #spolia
A small Victorian stone porch built from recycled Roman stones. It has a tiny arched window, stone balls on the gable and several of its stones are reused Roman drainage gutters.
February 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
biodivlibrary.bsky.social
Happy #SciArtSaturday! The Ocean Sunfish is one of the heaviest known bony fishes.⁣ This incredible #SciArt depicts the skeleton of a 3'6" specimen found on a beach in Vejlefjord Denmark in 1878.⁣ ⁣From "Spolia Atlantica" (1898) via Smithsonian Libraries www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13296607 🧪
May 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Before Rome was even part of the new kingdom, #Milan used #spolia to manufacture a local #Romanitas. These #Roman reliefs were inserted into the #medieval gate of #PortaNuova in the 1860s as visual nation-building, today's theme for #SpoliaSunday. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SPOLIA IN THE ARCHI DI PORTA NUOVA, MILAN, REUSED IN THE 1860S ​“We've made Italy, now we must make the Italians,” wrote Massimo d’Azeglio in 1866. ​Here we see a very specific and unusual use of spolia, with a political message reaching beyond the spolia itself and beyond Milan. Inset into the rustic tan blocks of this 1171 gate is a vertical column of Roman marble fragments assembled during an 1860s post-unitary restoration by architect Giuseppe Balzaretto. The main piece is a C1 BCE funerary monument of the freedman family Gens Vettria, showing five portrait busts peering from house-tomb niches, a Latin inscription, and a small marriage relief at the base. Below it, an unrelated Roman inscription fragment has been seamlessly stacked. By moving these antiquities into the public square, the new Italian government created an open-air classroom, using local Romanitas to anchor this northern city to a grand, shared national lineage before Rome itself was even part of the new nation.
May 31, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Me estoy descargando "Spolia" de Beatriz Alcaná. ¡Recomendado! 📚 @beatrizalcana.bsky.social (vía @ebuki.es) https://ebuki.es/book/39
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April 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
lissajostewart.bsky.social
Marcus Claudius Marcellus' winning of the spolia opima earned him great fame in his lifetime. The spolia opima was one of the highest honors that could be bestowed on a Roman general. Plutarch informs us how the spolia opima was acquired, stating that, "only those spoils are 'opima' which are taken first, in a pitched battle, where general slays general." Only two others in Roman history, Romulus, the founder of Rome, and Aulus Cornelius Cossus, were allegedly honored with this prize. Marcellus is the only one of the three whose achievement has been historically confirmed. In terms of the history of the spolia opima, Marcellus holds great significance because he reinvigorated the meaning of the honored prize. Prior to Marcellus, the spolia opima was not of special importance in the minds of Romans because it had happened only twice before, if at all. Furthermore, the actual ritual of the spolia opima was not confirmed until Marcellus made it customary to dedicate the armor to Jupiter Feretrius. No one else accomplished the same feat to continue the tradition. In this way, Marcellus publicized the winning of the spolia opima and turned it into a legend. Marcellus was an important general during the Second Punic War and his five-time election as a consul has its place in Roman history. His decisive victories in Sicily were of history-altering proportions, while his campaigns in Italy itself gave Hannibal himself pause and reinvigorated the Roman Senate. But it is Marcellus' triumph as a warrior and winner of a spolia opima that confirmed his place in ancient Roman history. Due to all of this, he is known as the Sword of Rome. Plutarch also emphasized the service of Marcellus as "the civilizer of Rome," one of the first to bring Greek art and learning to the Italian city. 10]
September 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM