Serpent Column
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serpent-column-165-2497548
title:
Serpent Column
text:
The Serpent Column, also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople in what is now Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine the Great in 324. It was built to commemorate the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea. The serpent heads of the 8-metre (26 ft) high column remained intac
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Greek victory column in Istanbul, Turkey
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Column
date created:
2007-03-25T11:15:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T07:09:24Z
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image:
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