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LSA-2762 Literary record of gilded bronze statue of Helena, niece of emperor Justin II. Constantinople, Milion. 565-578

Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ Μιλίῳ Σοφίας τῆς γυναικὸς Ἰουστίνου ... καὶ Ἑλήνης ἀνεψιᾶς Σοφίας εὐμορφοτάτης πάνυ κεχρυσομένη.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Recorded at the Milion by our sources
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Statue Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Text Type:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Helena, neice of the empress Sophia Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Not recorded Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 565 Latest : 578
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, § 35

Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 112 no. 133

Preger, Th.
, Scriptores Originum Constantinopolitanarum Vol. I: Hesychii illustrii origines Constantinopolitanae. Anonymi enarrationes breves chronographicae. Anonymi narratio de aedificatione templi S. Sophiae (= Hesychius; Parastaseis; Diegesis; Patria Constantinupoleos) (1901), 1901, Parastaseis 35; Patria II, 30
TEXT
Text: Parastaseis 35:
Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ Μιλίῳ Σοφίας τῆς γυναικὸς Ἰουστίνου τοῦ μετὰ τὸν μέγιστον Ἰουστινιανὸν καὶ Ἀραβίας θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς καὶ Ἑλήνης ἀνεψιᾶς Σοφίας εὐμορφοτάτης πάνυ κεχρυσομένη.

Patria II, 30:
Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ Μιλίῳ στῆλαι ἵστανται Σοφίας τῆς γυναικὸς Ἰουστίνου τοῦ Θρακὸς καὶ Ἀραβίας θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς καὶ Ἑλήνης ἀνεψιᾶς αὐτῆς.

 Trans: Parastaseis 35:
At the same Milion [there are statues] of Sophia, the wife of Justin who reigned after Justinian the Great, and of Arabia, her daughter, and of Helena, the extraordinarily beautiful niece of Sophia, completely gilded.

Patria II, 30:
At this Milion there stand statues of Sophia, the wife of Justin the Thracian, and of Arabia, her daughter, and of Helena, her niece.
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