Is the checker pattern used as a public mocking of Jesus Christ's persecution?
In 2009, archaeologists unearthed a villa north of Rome thought to be the birthplace of Vespasian (Roman emperor from 69AD to 79AD), the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum, and during the process uncovered floors elaborately checkered in colored marble.
>https://semistories.semihandmade.com/checkered-floors/
Sites of Masonic lodges commonly utilise checkered carpeting, tiling, parquetry or other types of flooring as the ground upon which Masonic rituals and lectures occur.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_(pattern)
Antonio Ciseri's Jesus persecution painting 1871 (notice the checkered floors in the painting)
>https://comemeetjesus.art/ecce-homo-behold-the-man-antonio-ciseri-1821-1891/
Jeffrey Epstein's Island outside checkered floor
>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIoP3nMXUAEdAiz.jpg