Wednesday 31 December 2014

The Serpent Column / Delphi Tripod

Cast in 478BC to commemorate the ancient Greek victory over the Persians and installed at Delphi. Relocated to the Hippodrome at Constantinople by Emperor Constantine I in AD324. The bronze column originally ended in snake heads which supported a gold bowl. Istanbul, Turkey. 


(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - credit: Images George Rex.)