Palimpsest Signage, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, NSW, Australia [Photography]

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A close-up photograph of a highly distressed and weathered wall signage within a light tan border. Black, serifed text is organized into horizontal sections separated by dark lines. The visible text includes "STERN EQUITY'S OFFICE", OFFICE", "OFFICE OF THE PEACE First Floor", and "LUNACY'S OFFICE Top Floor" Floor". Some portions of the lettering are partially obscured by the damaged surface of the sign.

In textual studies, a palimpsest (/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/) is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse[1] in the form of another document.[2] Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or goat skin and was expensive and not readily available, so, in the interest of economy, a page was often re-used by scraping off the previous writing. In colloquial usage, the term palimpsest is also used in architecture, archaeology and geomorphology to denote an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another; for example, a monumental brass on which the blank reverse side has been re-engraved.[3 — Wikipedia

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