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    Spolia (Latin for 'spoils'; sg.: spolium) are stones taken from an old structure and repurposed for new construction or decorative purposes. It is the...
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  • The spolia opima (Latin for 'rich spoils') were the armour, arms, and other effects that an ancient Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing...
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  • Spolia (spoils) is a Latin word that occurs in the following contexts: Spolia, building rubble re-used Spoils of victory Spolia opima, armour and arms...
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    Marcellus gained the most prestigious award a Roman general could earn, the spolia opima, for killing the Gallic king Viridomarus in single combat in 222 BC...
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  • Salmacida Spolia was the last masque performed at the English Court before the outbreak of the English Civil War. Written by Sir William Davenant, with...
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  • have gained spolia 23 times. The higher the rank of the opponent killed in combat, the more prestigious the spolia, and none more so than spolia duci hostium...
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    gold, and mounted in a medieval silver-gilt eagle. The vase is a medieval spolia piece and is displayed along with the French regalia in the Galerie d'Apollon...
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    figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat...
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    protection. The Themistoclean Wall was completed in 479 BC and built with spolia, old materials, in this case destroyed temples, statues, and other ruins...
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    Although substantially ruined by earthquakes and stone robbers taking spolia, the Colosseum is still a renowned symbol of Imperial Rome and was listed...
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    was reused, which since at least the early 16th century became known as spolia. Through the process of case-hardening, granite becomes harder with age...
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    architectural elements from ancient Egyptian monuments were often used as spolia for later constructions. A number of medieval mosques, for example, incorporate...
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  • performed the ritual on the streets outside the mosque complex. Since the spolia of Jain and Hindu temples were used to construct the minaret, the right-wing...
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    antimachus Staudinger, 1888 Pseudaletis nigra Holland, 1892 Pseudaletis spolia Riley, 1922 Pseudaletis dardanella Riley, 1922 Pseudaletis occidentalis...
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    later was incorporated into a massive Renaissance baptistery. The use of spolia from the tomb in the post-Roman period was noted in the 16th century – Giorgio...
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    Bertolo, Fabio M. (2003). "L'Officiolum ritrovato di Francesco da Barberino". Spolia – Journal of Medieval Studies. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023...
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  • Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1956). "The Ceylon leopard, a distinct subspecies". Spolia Zeylanica. 28: 115–116. Stein, A. B.; Athreya, V.; Gerngross, P.; Balme...
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    with the caliphal period.: 244–245  These capitals later became prized spolia and can be found in later buildings across the region built under the Almoravids...
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    the real Gorgon is Medusa. An ancient Roman carving of the Medusa, now a spolia in use as a column base in the Basilica Cistern The Medusa's head central...
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    nave and the main building medium was opus africanum of local stone, and spolia was infrequently used. The Church of the East's Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon...
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    Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 7.121–157." Reading Greek, Hellenistic and Roman spolia. Objects, appropriation and cultural change, Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies...
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    Fulda, Corvey, Trier, Müstair, Mals, Naturns, Cividale, Brescia and Milan. Spolia is the Latin term for "spoils" and is used to refer to the taking or appropriation...
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    cross-in-square style, it is, uniquely, almost entirely built of reused spolia from earlier buildings, ranging from Classical Antiquity to the 12th or...
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    typically Islamic are still visible. An official term for the rationale is spolia. The mosque was called the djami of Pasha Gazi Kassim, and djami means mosque...
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    Interior walls with carved ancient spolia...
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    the sacred flintstone (silex). The most ancient known rites, those of the spolia opima and of the fetials which connect Jupiter with Mars and Quirinus are...
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    combat, Romulus stripped him of his armour, becoming the first to claim the spolia opima, and vowed to build a temple to Jupiter Feretrius. Antemnae and Crustumerium...
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    run across the mausoleum's four walls. Repurposed by Shajar al-Durr as spolia, the beams were originally created for a Fatimid palace. They contain Fatimid...
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    al-Nasir Muhammad, and the Madrasa of Sultan Barquq. Some mosques include spolia (often columns or capitals) from earlier buildings built by the Romans,...
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    to have founded Rome's first temple to Jupiter Feretrius and offered the spolia opima, the prime spoils taken in war, in the celebration of the first Roman...
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