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

One side of the monument reads: “ Erected to the Memory of an Amiable Child, St. Claire Pollock, Died 15 July 1797 in the Fifth Year of His Age .” The monument is composed of a granite urn on a granite pedestal inside a wrought iron fence.

It reads " The first declaration of William, Prince of Orange, the glorious defender of the Protestant Religion and the liberties of England, was read on this pedestal by the Rev John Reynall, Rector of this parish, on November 5th 1688.

The monument was erected in 1950 and the plaque located in its pedestal reads as follows: " This chair is an exemplar and inspiration for future generations to emulate and perpetuate the achievements of our time-honored furniture designers and craftsmen ...

A simple stone cross with the inscription on the pedestal reads: " ROLAND ALLEN, CLERK IN HOLY ORDERS, 1868-1947, I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE SAITH THE LORD "

On the side of the pedestal facing the Krakowskie Przedmieście is a plaque bearing the words in finest lettering reads:

The inscription on the pedestal reads:

One of the original plaques on the pedestal reads as follows:

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.

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.

In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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

It was originally planned for a pedestal to indicate the location of the Hill but in the final version was indicated by a compass on the motion sensor.

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.

It was surrounded by votive altars and the pedestal of statues.

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.

Built on the structural foundation that supported the Perisphere of the 1939 – 1940 New York World's Fair, the Unisphere is centered in a large, circular reflecting pool and is surrounded by a series of water-jet fountains designed to obscure its tripod pedestal.

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.

In 1909 a statue of Captain Burns was given to the town by his grandson, Walter Francis Burns, Sr. and was set on a granite pedestal in the center of the town square.

The marker consists of a large grey granite pedestal capped by a two-ton granite sphere four feet in diameter.

The sphere moves on its base a 1 / 4 to a 1 / 2 inch every year, as measured by the distance traveled by the unpolished spot from where it was mated to the pedestal.

The Liberty Bell was displayed on that pedestal for the next quarter-century, surmounted by an eagle ( originally sculpted, later stuffed ).

Beyond the gateway a pedestal overlooking the playing fields in Dodds Park is inscribed with the names of those who have represented Champaign County in the Olympics.

Barère was also known to have attacked Maximilien Robespierre by calling him " a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal ".

" The idol resembles the Wilcox sculpture, and represented a "... thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters ".

Thurston realizes from the article that the crew of the Alert was connected to the Cthulhu Cult, and travels to New Zealand and then Australia, where at the Australian Museum he views a statue retrieved from the Alert with a " cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal ".

Some of the guns had their wheels and part of their carriages cut away so that they could be mounted on a pedestal called a " Mounting, 75mm Mk 1 ".

His biographer, the pantomime librettist J. Hickory Wood, described his act: " He danced on the stage ; he danced on a pedestal ; he danced on a slab of slate ; he was encored over and over again ; but throughout his performance, he never uttered a word ".

The inscription on the pedestal of a statue found near the castle mentions Suel as being a Roman " municipium ".

Strabo himself apparently was too far away to be able to determine its nature: he reported that he could not determine if it came from the pedestal, the shattered upper area, or " the people standing around at the base ".

Pierre L ' Enfant, as he began to develop his plan for the new Federal City in 1791, chose to locate the " Congress House " on the crest of the hill, facing the city, a site that L ' Enfant characterized as a " pedestal waiting for a monument ".

At Culgoora, New South Wales ( 25 kilometres from Narrabri ), in the grounds of the Paul Wild Observatory – home to the Australia Telescope Compact Array – is a sundial, mounted on a pedestal, " In memory of Paul Wild, founder of this observatory ".

The word base is first recorded in English language from c. 1325, and comes from Old French bas, which is derived from Latin basis " foundation ", itself derived from Archaic Greek basis " step, pedestal ," from bainein " to step ".

The ancient Greek word for a stilwalker was κωλοβαθριστής ( kōlobathristēs ), from κωλόβαθρον ( kōlobathron ), " stilt ", a compound of κῶλον ( kōlon ), " limb " + βάθρον ( bathron ), " base, pedestal ".

When a person overly idealizes someone ( or something, an object or idea ), it is often referred to as " putting them on a pedestal ".