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Serpent Column (Yılanlı Sutun) |
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believed to date from 479 BC, which was shipped here from Delphi. The heads of the serpents were knocked off in the 18th century by a drunken Polish nobleman. One of them can be seen in the Archaeological Museum . the Yılanlı Column is found in Sultanahmet Square. Alter the victory of the Greeks against the Persians, the leniplc of Apollo was erected in 479 B.C. It was built of metal obtained from weapons confiscated during the war and melted down. Later, in the reign of Constantine I
(324-337 A.D.), it was brought to Istanbul. It has the shape of entwined serpents, whose heads look out in three different directions. The names of the 31 Greek city-states that participated in the war are etched upon the snakes.The column was originally 8 meters high, but is only 5.30 meters high today and the heads of the serpents are missing.
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