Apotropaic Figures
Architecture


Labinci / Santa Domenica di Visinada

This head is on a house in a little village of Labinci near Kaštelir, near the Vizinada-Poreč road. It is carved as an ending to a stone trough which delivers rainwater to a house cistern. There is a pergola built over it which obscures the view a bit, but the interesting thing about it is that the head doesn't spew water out of its mouth but out of its ear.

Source:

  • Text and photograph by Mirko Gabler

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