The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş)
This is the city's birth certificate in stone. Everyone rushes past it to the bazaar; I always stop.
The scorched porphyry column Constantine raised in 330 to mark the founding of his new Roman capital.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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