Column of Marcian
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The column of Marcian, monument erected in Constantinople in 455. It is a red-grey Egyptian granite, in two pieces. The basis is quadrilateral, formed by four slabs in white marble, decorated with Greek crosses inside medallions on three faces, and two genii holding a globe. The column is topped by a Corinthian capital, probably a basis for a statue of Marcian. There is, in fact, an inscription engraved on the western side of the basis, which reads: Principis hanc statuam Marciani / Cernem torumque ter vovit quod Tatianus opus.[1]
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- ^ White, Charles, Three Years in Constantinople or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844, ISBN 1402175809, p. 259.
