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@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:57 PM

Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ROMAN MOSAIC EMBLEMA OF A LEOPARD FROM FALERIO PICENUS, MID-LATE C2 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS A Roman mosaic panel featuring a leopard walking left, depicted with brown and ochre tesserae, framed by a guilloche border. Falerio Picenus was a pristine Roman town until 1777, when Pope Pius VI's excavators arrived to furnish the Museo Pio-Clementino. Stripped from a private domus and cemented into the Scala Simonetti as spolia, this emblema invites reflection. Devoid of Dionysian symbols, the leopard is pure physical threat. Yet, frozen in mosaic, it is utterly tamed. For the Roman diners reclining above it, this apex predator was a conversational set-piece about empire, bringing the wild safely into the domestic sphere. Ultimately, the true predator was not the leopard, but the papal excavators. The homeowners were safe from the beast beneath their feet, but Falerio Picenus had no protection from the C18 diggers who tore the town apart to feed the Vatican collections.
@aisfriesland.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 12:33 AM

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@wikitree-stammtisch.genealogie.social.ap.brid.gySep 26, 2026, 10:28 AM

Im Gegensatz zur #Wikipedia muss in #Wikidata (und damit auch in #Domus ) die Person keine besondere Relevanz aufweisen, solange die Existenz belegt wird.

Aus den Kriterien zur Zulässigkeit von Datenobjekten: "Es bezieht sich auf einen klar abgrenzbaren konzeptuellen oder wirklichen Gegenstand […]