Crux utilitatis

This is about utility poles: telephone poles and power poles, not crosses of the kind you see in churches!

Here is a power pole with single transom (crossarm), behind the East Jefferson Regional Library, Metairie, LA.

Here is another power pole behind the Robert E Smith Library in New Orleans 

And here is a power pole with two transoms behind the Niversit* building, New Orleans, LA.  Nota bene how this pole leans.

And here is a power pole with four cantilevered transoms on Jackson Avenue at Simon Bolivar Street

in New Orleans. Note there is a cross looking on from a storefront church.

 

And here is yet another utility pole next to the St John's Lutheran Church school gym in Mid-City.

Note the contrast between the utility pole (crux utilitatis) and the gym's cross (tropaeum).

 

Now please go back to my previous post with the carefully constructed cruces commissae / semi-immissae (Katrina crosses).  Which sort of pole would the Romans have suspended and killed people on? A CROSS!? Or a utility pole?

* Formerly University Hospital, Perdido Street side.