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LSA-1606 Literary record of portrait statue, just possibly of Flavius Pompeius, military officer and consul. Constantinople. Earlier sixth century









PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Recorded in the baths of Zeuxippus
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Statue Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Text Type:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Pompeius Position: Gender: Male
Awarder: Not recorded Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 500 Latest : 532
MAIN REFERENCE
The Greek Anthology. Books 1-5. Translated by W.R. Paton, revised by Michael A. Tueller, Cambridge /Mass. 2014, p. 142-3, lines 398-406
TEXT
Text: Εἰς ἄγαλμα Πομπηΐου Καίσαρος
Κὰ τρόμος εὐαμάτων Πομπηΐος Αὐσονιήων, / φαιδρὸν ἰσαυροφόνων κειμήλιον ἠνορεάων, /στειβομένας ὑπὸ ποσσὶν Ἰσαυρίδας εἶχε μαχαίρας, / σημαίνων ὅτι δοῦλον ὑπὸ ζυγὸν αὐχένα Ταύρου / εἴρυσεν ἀρρήκτω πεπεδημένον ἅμματι Νίκης· / κεῖνος ἄνηρ, ὅς πᾶσιν ἔην φάος, ὃς βασιλήος / ἠγαθέην ἐφύτευσεν Ἀναστασίοιο γενέθλην. / τοῦτο δὲ πᾶσιν ἔδειξεν ἐμὸς σκηπτοῦχος ἀμύμων / δῃωσας σακέεσσιν Ἰσαυρίδος ἔθνεα γαίης.
Trans: On a statue of Pompey Caesar. Pompey, chief of the Ausonians successful in their efforts, was treading underfoot Isaurian swords, the glittering spoils of his courage in slaying the Isaurians, signifying that he had imposed upon the neck of Taurus the yoke of bondage and bound it with the unbreakable knot of victory. He was the man who was a light to all and the father of the August race of Anastasius. This my excellent ruler showed to all, himself vanquishing by his arms the inhabitants of Isauria (transl. W.R. Paton).
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