Monday, April 4, 2011

A few last pictures from Turkey

The Serpentine Column is an ancient bronze column in the Hippodrome that was part of an ancient Greek sacrifical tripod and was located to Turkey in 324. It has one of the longest literary histories of any object surviving from Greek and Roman antiquity and it at least 2,487 years old.

The spice market - I loved the shopping and brought back scarves, Turkish delight candies and a real jasmine outfit for Cadence.
The ceiling inside the walls of the Harem at the Topkapi Palace which was the residence for the sultans for almost 300 years. 4,000 people lived in the Palace and today it is a museum where I saw the 7th largest diamond in the world and also artifacts such as Abraham's bowl, Joseph's head dressing and a bone from the hand of John the Baptist.

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