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LSA-27 Base for lost porphyry column, once supporting silver statue of Eudoxia, empress and wife of Arcadius. Constantinople, 'Pittakia'. 403








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Constantinople, region called 'Pittakia'
Current Location: Istanbul, Courtyard of Santa Sophia (Ayasofya Müzesi)
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Column Height(cm): (extant) 79.5 Width(cm): 1.45 Depth(cm):
Language: Bilingual Text Type: Prose and Verse
SUBJECT
Honorand: Eudoxia Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Simplicius Position: Prefects of Constantinople
DATE
Earliest: 403 Latest : 403
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum; , IV 8614

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , III, 736

Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, p. 96 no. 91
INSCRIPTION
Text: D(ominae) n(ostrae) Ael(iae) Eudoxiae, semper Augustae, / v(ir) c(larissimus) Simplicius, praef(ectus) urbi, dedicavit.

[Κίον[α] πορφυρέην καὶ ἀργυρέην βασίλειαν / [δ]έ[ρ]κεο, ἔνθα πόληι θεμιστεύουσιν ἄνακτες. / [τοὔ]νομα δ’, εἰ ποθέεις, Εὐδό[ξ]ια. τίς δ’ ἀνέθηκεν; / [Σι]μπλίκιος, μεγάλων ὑπάτων γόνος, ἐσθλὸς ὕπαρχο[ς].		 Trans: To our lady Aelia Eudoxia, always Augusta. Simplicius, of clarissimus rank, prefect of the city, dedicated [it].

See the porphyry column and the silver empress, in the place where the emperors give rule to the city! Of what name is she, you might ask? Eudoxia. Who set her up? Simplicius, offspring of mighty consuls, the noble prefect.
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