{"id":253,"date":"2010-08-14T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-08-18T02:47:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:47:54","slug":"snake-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Snake Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Bronze Serpent Column of Istanbul<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/column-for-blog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A 25-foot high, 2500 year-old bronze column sits in the middle of Istanbul  (formerly Constantinople) representing the oldest surviving Greco-Roman artifact in the world. It originally had a trio of snake heads at the top, serving as a tripod for a golden sacrificial platter, and was created for ceremonies celebrating the turning away of the Persian invasions under Xerxes by the Greek alliance of city-states  in 478 BC. <\/p>\n<p>The Emperor Constantine had it moved from the famous temple to Apollo at Delphi (remember the famous &#8220;Oracle at Delphi?&#8221;) to his capital city, Constantinople where it now stands. Constantinople, of course, became Istanbul under the Ottoman Turkish Empire.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the 17th Century, it was vandalized by Christian invaders from the West, leaving the column, but without the snake heads.<\/p>\n<p> After viewing the stunning column, Marzena and I hunted down the one remaining snake head kept at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul and took these pictures during our vacation in Turkey last year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/serpent-head-for-blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/snake-head-for-blog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In honor of this magnificent monument, I sculpted the 12&#8243; model replica shown below on the weekend of August 13 and 14, 2010.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/istanbul-snake-column.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bronze Serpent Column of Istanbul A 25-foot high, 2500 year-old bronze column sits in the middle of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) representing the oldest surviving Greco-Roman artifact in the world. It originally had a trio of snake heads at the top, serving as a tripod for a golden sacrificial platter, and was created for ceremonies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}