Inscription from 600 BC. About two inches high. At Delos, statue platform.

Events of the day:

Hippodrome. Blue Mosque. Grand Bazaar. Lunch for many at the excellent Havuzlu Restaurant (since 1960) in the Grand Bazaar (since 1481). Own devices, afternoon. Whirling Dervishes. Final Banquet.

The Blue Mosque gets its own page.

Our excellent guide explains the Serpentine Column in Istanbul's Hippodrome. From Wikipedia: "The Serpentine Column has one of the longest literary histories of any object surviving from Greek and Roman antiquity- its provenance is not in doubt and it is at least 2,489 years old." (Full article). Originally sited at temple of Delphi. A drawing of the column from 1582 shows the serpent's heads still in place. One of them is in Istanbul's excellent Archaeology Museum. (Photos from there, from my '09 trip. (But none of serpent head.))

To the right, the base of Obelisk of Theodosius, created in Luxor, 1400's BC, and moved to Istanbul in 390 AD. Only slightly more than half of the original obelisk has survived to our times. Our guide told us that it was quarried from the same quarry at Aswan which still holds "the unfinished obelisk", also shown about 3/4 of the way down a page about my visit to Egypt in November 2010.

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