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Serpent Column

a Pleiades place resource

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An ancient bronze column that was displayed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, the Serpent Column was part of a monument originally installed at Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine I in A.D. 324. The monument was originally built to celebrate the Greek defeat of the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea in 479 B.C.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/927063702

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.0056497, 28.9750961

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Serpent Column (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Serpent Column makes connections with:

Serpent Column located at Hippodrome of Constantinople (unspecified date range)

Serpent Column receives connections from:

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Place type:
monument

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Wikipedia (English) Serpent Column

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Serpent Column: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/927063702> [accessed: 18 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/927063702 |title=Places: 927063702 (Serpent Column) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 18, 2024 10:45 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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