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Marble Urn inside the Hagia Sophia #89286535
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The marble Lustration urn, the enormous urn around 2 metres high, is one of a matching pair carved from single blocks of marble during the Hellenistic period. They were taken from Pergamon to Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Murad III 1546-1595, ruled 1574-1595 and placed at either side of the entrance to the nave of the Hagia Sophia
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