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LSA-2719 Literary record of silver statue of Theodosius I, emperor, on column. Constantinople, Augusteion. 390

Ἐπὶ Θεοδοσίου οὖν τοῦ μεγάλου στήλη ἑτέρα τῷ κίονι διαδεχεται, ἀγυραῖα καὶ αὐτή
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Recorded at the Augusteion
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Statue, with base Material: Silver Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Text Type:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Theodosius I Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Not recorded Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 390 Latest : 390
MAIN REFERENCE
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, no. 55
TEXT
Text: Marcellinus Comes A 11, 62:
Indictione III, Valentiniano Augusto IV et Neoterio co(n)s(ulibu)s. ... columna haud longe ab ecclesia constituta est, quae argenteam Theodosii Magni statuam ferens hactenus contemplatur.

Parastaseis 68:
Ἐπὶ Θεοδοσίου οὖν τοῦ μεγάλου στήλη ἑτέρα τῷ κίονι διαδεχεται, ἀγυραῖα καὶ αὐτή, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀρκαδίου καὶ Ὁνωρίου πρὸς τῇ γῇ, ὡς ὁ Θεόδωρός φησι.		 Trans: Marcellinus Comes A 11, 62:
In the 3rd indiction, under the consulship of Valentinian Augustus for the 4th time, and Neoterius. ... A column was set up not far from the church [= Hagia Sophia], which can still be seen carrying a silver statue of Theodosius the Great.

Parastaseis 68:
Under Theodosius the Great another statue was substituted on the column, also of silver; with Arcadius and Honorius at ground level, as Theodore says. (trans. Cameron and Herrin)
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