DOMUS SOLARATA, C9 CE. FORUM OF NERVA Here we see, at dusk, the still-impressive portico of a high-medieval house built into the ruins of the Forum of Nerva using stone, including the tufo from the Forum Romanum-facing end of Nerva's Forum. There are bits and pieces of marble, and the vestigial upper floor seems to have been made with marble chips and mortar. This was an aristocratic house, with a curtis or court toward the Forum Romanum and a hortus or garden on its other side. The portico followed the edge of the important street called the Argiletum, which crossed the Forum of Nerva. The pavement of marble had been removed a century or so previously to be burnt into lime, so the new pavement was cobbled together from other stone fragments and even horse bones.

For #SpoliaSunday, a medieval #domus "solarata" or of two floors stands in the #Forum of #Nerva, made up entirely of found #spolia stone from the vicinity in the C9. In front of its portico, the ancient street called the #Argiletum was repaved with spolia, including horse bones. #AncientBluesky 🏺