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Few monuments in Istanbul have stood as long or witnessed as much as the Column of Constantine, a battered porphyry pillar that has marked the heart of the city for some seventeen centuries. It was raised by the emperor Constantine the Great to mark the dedication of his new capital, Constantinople, in the early fourth century, and once stood at the centre of a grand oval forum, crowned by a statue of the emperor in the guise of the sun god. The drums of deep red Egyptian stone, bound together w...