September 1, 2010Several of you asked questions about the lamp post in front of the post office after yesterday's photo showed lines and shadows of the base. I found the parts more interesting than the sum, and I never took a photo showing the whole post. There is a lamp post on either side of the steps leading to the front doors, and the photos include both lamps.
It's not too clear, but the lamps are placed on a cement footing above ground level on either side of the staircase. The fencing in the foreground is the railing along the handicapped ramp.
. . . So, there you have it :) When I first looked at the three-legged base the other day, it reminded me of the triskelion seen everywhere in Sicily. The link will show some of the ways a triskelion is used, but when seen anthropomorphized as running legs (which is how we saw it so often in Sicily), it looks very strange.
3 comments:
I like the base and I like the lamps. The base, though, reminds me of a kneeling Japanese Sumo wrestler!
We still have some old lamp posts in “Piazza della Repubblica” with almost the same three-legged base and some more recent ones “Piazza della Vittoria” (the ones replaced by the Low-Cost Lamp Posts).
Love the posts. Give such an old feel.
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