Literary record of statue of Verina, wife of emperor Leo I. Constantinople, region of Anemodoulion, close to church of St Barbara. 475-476
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Close to church of St. Barbara, according to our sources
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue
Material:
Unknown
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:
475
Latest:
476
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
