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The upside-down Medusa head sculpture at the base of a column in the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, illuminated by amber light with a fish swimming in the dark water below.

The upside-down Medusa head at the foot of a column in the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, the Roman marble face and its snake-wreathed hair lit amber from below, the black water around it still and holding the reflection, a carp turning in the shallows, the columns beyond fading into dark, 50mm, a palette of amber, marble and black Mehr sehen

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