Column of Constantine Istanbul
by Weston Westmoreland
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Column of Constantine Istanbul
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Column of Constantine, Istanbul, Turkey
The Column of Constantine is a Roman monumental column constructed in 330 AD. It commemorates the declaration of Byzantium (renamed by Constantine as Nova Roma) as the new capital city of the Roman Empire.
The column used to be 150 feet high with a Statue of Constantine on top. The column, made of porphyry cylinders, lost the statue and some of the cylinders and is now 100 feet high. It remains in its original location, at the center of what once was the Forum of Constantine, and it is one of the few vestiges of ancient Roman Constantinople you will find in Istanbul.
More images of the Roman, Ottoman and Byzantine capital one copy-paste away at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/istanbul
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October 14th, 2019
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