Monday, March 26, 2012

You have had an interest in me for far too long!


Expressing an opinion is not slanderous, nor is stating a fact

About the photograph above
This is not just a "Statue face upside down" it is the base of a column used in the water cistern in Instanbul. The Medusa column base, Yerebatan Sarayı, Instanbul, Turkey, is used here to show an example of lack of respect.

The lack of respect here is that of the Byzantine Turks for the Phoenicians that the column base was taken from a previous temple. The fact that the Medusa head would have been under ground and under water and therefore never seen by anyone (until now as the cistern is open to the public and is a major tourist attraction in Istanbul) shows that the Turks had no respect for what went before.
Even the church of Aya Sophia was built with plundered materials from previous empires. I guess the conversion of the church to a mosque and then to now a museum is further lack of respect?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

who is slandering whom
i have a complete copy of your website.!! you have trying to flame my group. you have no knowledge of me or my compliments.

but i know yours

UK Musings said...

You don't need a copy of my website - all of the information is now in this blog