Weeping Column – Basilica Cistern Hen's Eye Column, Istanbul | 3D Print STL

The one column in the Basilica Cistern that everyone stops to photograph — the one that cries. Justinian's Basilica Cistern was built in 532 AD under the streets beside Hagia Sophia: 336 columns in 12 rows, holding up a roof over enough water for a city. Most of the columns are plain. One is carved all over with raised teardrop "hen's eye" shapes and is always wet, so it seems to weep — local tradition says for the hundreds who died building the cistern. The same pattern appears on fragments of…

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