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Wikipedia: The Serpent Column — also known as the Serpentine Column, Delphi Tripod or Plataean Tripod — is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known as Atmeydanı "Horse Square" in the Ottoman period) in what is now Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine I the Great in 324. The serpent heads of the 8-meter high column remained intact until the end of the 17th century (one is on display at the nearby Istanbul Archaeology Museums).
![[Ottoman miniature from the Surname]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Surname_341a_s.jpg "Ottoman miniature from the Surname")
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![[A part of one of the heads is today in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Head_serpent_Hippodrome_Istanbul_Museum_285_29_s.jpg "A part of one of the heads is today in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum")
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