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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 2940655, member: 75143&quot;]Spectacular.</p><p>It&#039;s insane that his dining table is still in existence. Wow.</p><p><br /></p><p>That purple stone, porphyry, was later often used in <i>spolia</i>, where fragments of statues or whole columns were essentially stolen from their original places and inserted into walls of later palaces or buildings, in order to up the respect factor. Plus, in later years porphyry got so expensive that the only way to get it was to snatch it from somewhere else. Some sources say that good porphyry was worth its weight in gold. Ouch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I got marked down in my Roman Art class in college when I wrote the location of Diocletian&#039;s Palace as &quot;Spalato&quot; (the older Italian name of the city) instead of &quot;Split&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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