Byzantine

39.17|3223. 2 25 26 1 14 20 9 14 5/Byzantine: it represents a place and period 9 letters long covering the peninsula along the strait of Bosphorus (the present Istanbul) - between 330-1453, dedicated by Constantine 1 as the "New Rome" and named Constantinople which became the economical, political and cultural capital of the period and spawned the patterns and the stories that would vault its history, such that when walking along the coast of Bosphorus, or up and down the intricate steep alleys accompanied by the stray passers by, the dogs and cats, the twisting shadow on the striated wall across that scribble the kiss of two lovers again and again, the loud song of prayer, the crackling noise of dice rolling on rows of backgammon boards, the glowing amber liquids in little tulip shaped glasses, the [r]evolution of squares to semi spherical objects there in the distance ..., time stops-still, and everything is subsumed within a single instantaneous moment under a boundless spiraling sky; ∑Byzantine= H

Anti referent #443 : Zinatebyn