This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Here and there on work table or pedestal stood a shape with a sheet or a tarpaulin draped over it.

In this way, you can arrange his legs and arms in any desired position, with feet, or one foot, barely resting on the pedestal.

Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

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In this illustration he takes an oath before the consuls with his right hand on the town ordinances, while sitting on a pedestal.

His " Hollywood Star " stands on a pedestal on King Street in downtown Boone.

Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).

The whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.

And a society that does not put women on such a high pedestal has to face miseries and failures regardless of howsomuch noble deeds they perform otherwise.

Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.

In 1785, the Russian Academy of Sciences put a marble bust of Leonhard Euler on a pedestal next to the Director's seat and, in 1837, placed a headstone on Euler's grave.

* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds.

The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island.

After the September 11 attacks in 2001, it was closed for reasons of safety and security ; the pedestal reopened in 2004 and the statue in 2009, with limits on the number of visitors allowed to ascend to the crown.

A giant 15-meter ( 50 ft ) tall gold-plated statue of him stands on a rotating pedestal in Ashgabat, so it will always face into the sun and shine light onto the city.

E. Urner Goodman recounts that the elderly Watson attended an International Scout Commissioners ' meeting in Switzerland, where the IBM founder asked not to be put on a pedestal.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

Odin hanged them, and mounted the statue upon a pedestal, which by the marvellous skill of his art he made to speak when a mortal touched it.

)" The spanish individualist anarchist Miguel Gimenez Igualada thought that "" capitalism is an effect of government ; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously ... That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired.

The statue of Richard the Lionheart was lifted from its pedestal by the force of the blast, and its upheld sword bent, an image that was used as a symbol of the strength of democracy, " which would bend but not break under attack ".

The prototype consisted of a device attached to a wooden pedestal containing over a hundred wires, which would eventually be replaced with a single chip designed by Alcorn and Lee ; the chip had yet to be tested and built before the prototype was constructed.

The statue is on a stone pedestal, which has a plaque that reads " Dem Dichterpaar / Goethe und Schiller / das Vaterland ".

Nearby, a replica of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek V has been mounted on a pedestal which includes writing from Trek alien languages like Klingon.

The interior of the structure, which stood on a 15 meter ( 50 foot ) high white marble pedestal near the Mandraki harbor entrance, was then filled with stone blocks as construction progressed.

As late as the early 20th century, part of this statue's head were in the British Museum ; some fragments of the reliefs which adorned the pedestal were in the museum at Athens.

A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40 ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of " Bailey Square " by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930.

The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.

It is a traffic signal on a pedestal which sits in the middle of an intersection, dating back to the 1920s.

The word basidium literally means little pedestal, from the way in which the basidium supports the spores.

He did not question Frankfurter ’ s designation of the flag as a national symbol ; instead, he criticized the pedestal on which Frankfurter put such national symbols.

The whole fabric is supported on a pedestal N, and may be elevated or depressed upon the joint O, to any number of degrees from 0 to 90, by means of the arc P, which is fixed in the strong brass arm Q, and slides in the upright piece R, in which is a screw at r, to fix it at any proper elevation.

Close by is the Bodhi Tataung Laykyun Setkyar Standing Buddha statue, the second-tallest statue in the world, at a total of 129 metres ( including pedestal ).

A large image of Sakyamuni Buddha is also recorded to have been enshrined in the main hall with the stone pedestal still remaining.

The graceful statue of Buddha on a lotus pedestal in the center is the dominant feature of the chamber.

The lid of the casket shows the Buddha on lotus pedestal, and worshipped by Brahma and Indra.

It houses not only relics and Burmes handicrafts but also a large bronze statue of Buddha measuring thirteen feet high which rests on a six feet high pedestal.

In the larger main room there is lotus pedestal and throne carved with makara, lion, and elephant figure, similar to the Buddha Vairocana throne founds in Mendut temple.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

The statue, including the pedestal and base, is closed until October 28, 2012, so that a secondary staircase and other safety features can be installed ; Liberty Island remains open.

The seal of the city is a crowned lion on a pedestal with the inscription " Yerevan.

Decorative candle holders, especially those shaped as a pedestal, are called candlesticks ; if multiple candle tapers are held, the term candelabrum is also used.

A pedestal of any kind, with the appropriate-sized fireproof top, is another option.

A hurricane on a pedestal is sometimes sold as a unit.

She commented to a journalist that the record company was " putting Manson up on a pedestal for young people who don't know who he is to worship like an idol.

The centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles ( Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying ) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet.

This stone is now displayed on a pedestal at Clancy Strand.

One of them is used as the pedestal of the Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

In the bdelloids, this plan is further modified, with the upper band splitting into two rotating wheels, raised up on a pedestal projecting from the upper surface of the head.

There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:

Image: YehliuTaiwan-HoneycombWeathering. jpg | The surface pattern on this pedestal rock is honeycomb weathering, caused by salt crystallisation.