An infinite treasure

Hanno almeno 1,500 anni the enormous Byzantine statue (databili tra il V e il VI secolo), alte circa due metri, found in the heart of Istanbul qualche settimana fa. A sensitive scope and also perched is the founda convinzione che potrebbe trattarsi solo della pointa dell'iceberg di altri possibili ritrovamenti.

Here we speak of a site that is also published in my favorite articles: Istanbul Europe, the district of Saraçhane, the city of Valente and the Colonnade of Marciano, dove Anicia Giuliana, important donna aristocratica during the reign of Anastasio , Giustino and Giustiniano, commissioned the church of San Polieucto, between 524 and 527 d.C. If you look at a monument built first in the great program by Giustiniano, you will also understand the third reconstruction of Santa Sofia, the greatest basilica of the Antichrist and the capital of the Roman Empire of the Orient. The location of San Policto was casually in 1960, during the construction of a cavalcade, all the beginning of an urban policy spesso selvaggia, che ancora non si è arrestata. Gli scavi portarono alla luce le fundamenta di una chiesa e un grand numero di blocchi chitettonici riccamente scolpiti, alcuni dei quali con scribezioni la cui ricomposizione è stata possibile sulla scorta dell’epigramma trascritto en un’opera nota com Antologia palatina.

San Polieucto, which was dedicated to a pre-existing church, was a Roman soldier martyred in 250 d.C. nella città-guarnigione di Melitene (the odierna Malatya, semper in Turchia). Altre chiese to him dedicated if found in Gerusalemme and Ravenna. The building of the Costantinopolitan building was modeled on the Tempio di Salomone described by the Bibbia, but not so trattava of a conventional basilica: forse un transetto e una cupola, che anticipated what the tone of Santa Sofia. Due to the extremely robust interior of the foundation – it is fitted with an 8-meter load and an 8-meter depth – it supports the weight of the upper part of the building, which is why the column divides it.
Large part of the material of value of this one is furono saccheggiati, altri utilizzati for the construction of successive chiese costantinopolitane, like the monastery of the Pantocratore.

I crociati, during the sacco di Costantinopoli del 1204, rubarono alcuni di questi pezzi pregiati, trasportandoli fino a Venezia, Barcellona e Vienna. I cosiddetti Pilastri Acritani, che si trovano vicino all’angolo sud-ovest della Basilica di San Marco a Venezia, provengono proprio da questo sito di Saraçhane. The statue is very small and has a depth of 70 cm. Continua, dunque, the insauribile lascito del sottosuolo costantinopolitano.
I'm sure it's a beautiful quest, a così fascinating, permissible to continue not alone to explore the rich diversity of a complete story, but also to be inspired by the construction, nel present, of a future not founded on a polarizing propaganda, ritenuta essential for the conservation of the pottery.

In Istanbul, I don't even see the sight of a new museum, a new interesting area, or a re-qualification of an urban area, with a modest interest, it all associates art and beauty with a heavy consumption vision of fruit.
In the presence of a historical patrimony tale, you will be able to take a closer look at the greater series that comes with it and it is inspired by its ideological instruments. Non possiamo dimenticare che, mentre San Polieucto, caduto in rovina during the Latin Impero, continued to appear at a distance from the secoli, Santa Sofia che ne raccolse l'eredità, when it was stata riattivata come moschea giace in a state of degrado assoluto , che ne seriamente a rischio i tesori. If the earth is preserved without drying and capolavori of the art, it will be polverosa dell’incuria et dell’ignoranza li devasta!

Claudio Monge
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