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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.
@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:50 PM

"In the stillness of remembering / What you had and what you lost." The courtyard of Carlo #Maderno's 1616-1618 palazzo #Varese looks convincingly #Baroque and full of #spolia. This #SpoliaSunday we're looking for the lost Varese collection. #AncientBluesky 🏺🧵

COURTYARD OF PALAZZO VARESE, 1930 A night-time view looking down into the courtyard of palazzo Varese on via Giulia, where spotlights illuminate potted plants, modern concrete paving, and walls adorned with sarcophagus fountains and busts. The inscription over the doorway on the faux-Baroque tabula reads "BUILT 1495" and "RESTORED 1930". The palazzo was not built in 1495. The cellars, however, might have been, as they sit on a different alignment from that of via Giulia, which was cut through this neighbourhood in 1508. The construction of the lungotevere behind the palazzo entailed the loss of its garden and prompted its owners to construct an irregular new wing at the back of the courtyard. To conceal the mess, the last family to own the building, the Mancini Jacobini, built up the portal with a Maderno-esque overdoor, and created the courtyard as we see it today.
@plat.esSep 9, 2026, 7:52 AM

The Custom Oregon Plate SPOLIA was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #SPOLIA

Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "SPOLIA".