Word: propylea
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...vivify this change in their immutable grandeur. In 1978 he completed a colored granite floor mosaic and 16-foot fountain for the headquarters of Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin. Three years later, at the world headquarters of Owens-Illinois in Toledo, Ohio he unveiled his mammoth 36-foot granite "Propylea," its name recalling the welcoming gates of the Acropolis...
With three granite posts, Propylea is basically a tripodic form with a large crossbar spanning the top. Almost like a geyser, water spurts out the top and spills down the sides. The director of Toledo's art museum, Roger Mandle, has called the sculpture "a symbol of the city's role as a major seaport and gateway to the Great Lakes." To the rest of us, Propylea's massive structure brings to mind to mysterious monuments of Stonehenge...
...Pisidian Antioch,* an expedition financed by the University of Michigan and including Dr. David M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins University, unearthed two paved squares, one dedicated to Tiberius, the other to Augustus, a flight of marble steps and a propylea connecting the Iwo squares. The major find was the ruins of a great temple built in the first century by Augustus with a frieze of bulls' heads connected by garlands of leaves and fruit...
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