Old objects, artifacts, and/or sculptural elements reused in a later work of architecture.
2010, Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis, The Classical Tradition, page 904:
In the field of architecture the use of spolia began with Constantine.
2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 305:
The sultan did not so much destroy and rebuild as adapt and embroider, reusing the gorgeous spolia of the Crusaders with their foliate patterns, capitals and wetleaf acanthus; his architecture is thus constructed with the very symbols of his enemies, which makes it hard to distinguish between the buildings of the Crusaders and Saladin.
2016, Zeynep Yürekli, Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire, page 140:
The conspicuous use of spolia in the Mihaloğlu buildings of the shrine of Syyid Gazi is a remarkable departure from the dominant architectural culture of the time.
関連する語
spolia opima
ラテン語
動詞
spoliā
second-person singular present active imperative of spoliō