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The Serpent Column

Erected at Delphi after the Greek victory over Persia at Plataea in 479 BCE, the column listed participating cities. It now stands in Istanbul.

Memorials negotiate belonging.

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One community was added later; five others are conspicuously absent, likely for political reasons.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 194

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