Literary record of column with bronze statue of Verina, wife of emperor Leo I. Constantinople, environs of church of Agathonikos. 457-474
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Close to church of Agathonikos, south of Mese between forum of Constantine and forum of Theodosius
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue, with base
Material:
Bronze
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Verina
Position:
Imperial Family
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Not recorded
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
457
Latest:
474
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยง 29
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 101 no. 115
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, Patria II, 25; Parastaseis 29