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LSA-2822 Literary record of statue on porphyry column of Helena, mother of emperor Constantine I. Constantinople, Augusteion. 325-337

Αὐγουστίωνα...· ἐν ὧ καὶ στήλην ὁ μέγας Κωνσταντῖνος ἔστησεν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ μητρός·
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Constantinople, Augusteum
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Statue, with base Material: Unknown Re-Use? No
Form: Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Text Type:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Helena, mother of Constantine Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Constantine I, according to our source Position: Emperors
DATE
Earliest: 325 Latest : 337
MAIN REFERENCE
Berger, A., Untersuchungen zu den Patria Konstantinupoleos: Poikila Byzantina 8, Bonn 1988, 235-8
TEXT
Text: Patria II, 15:
... Αὐγουστίωνα...· ἐν ὧ καὶ στήλην ὁ μέγας Κωνσταντῖνος ἔστησεν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ μητρός· διὸ καὶ ἐπονώμασε τὸν τόπον Αὐγουστίωνα ...
 Trans: Chronicon Paschale s.a. 328:
... and he named the place Augustaeum because he had also set up opposite his own a monument of his mother, lady Helena Augusta, on a porphyry column. (trans. Whitby and Whitby)

Patria II, 15:
The Augusteion ... in which Constantine the Great also set up a statue of his mother; for this he called the place Augusteion ...
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