Serpent Column Is An Ancient Bronze Column At The Hippodrome Of Constantinople Editorial Photo

Serpent Column also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi 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 the Great in 324. It was built to commemorate the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea 479 BC.