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Locatie:

  • Turkije, Istanbul
  • geo:41.005646,28.975119
  • Locatie precies

Period or year:

  • -478 / unknown

Classificatie:

  • Votiefsteen of reliëf
  • Zichtbaar

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The Serpent Column in  Constantinople is a part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi. It have commemorated the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Platae in 479 BC. Constantine the Great in 324 have brougt it to his capital1,

  1. Herodotus, The Historiesi 9.81.1 .- Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

Bronverwijzingen

  1. Having brought all the loot together, they set apart a tithe for the god of Delphi. From this was made and dedicated that tripod which rests upon the bronze three-headed serpent

The Serpent Column in  Constantinople is a part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi. It have commemorated the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Platae in 479 BC. Constantine the Great in 324 have brougt it to his capital1,

  1. Herodotus, The Historiesi 9.81.1 .- Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

Bronverwijzingen

  1. Having brought all the loot together, they set apart a tithe for the god of Delphi. From this was made and dedicated that tripod which rests upon the bronze three-headed serpent


In de buurt

Constantinople, Hippodrome

Hippodrome Constantinople

Constantinople, Hippodrome, Second Obelisk

Byzantine obelisk of Constantine VII.

Constantinople, Hippodrome, Obelisk of Theodosius

Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople


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