Literary record of seated bronze statue, possibly of Verina, wife of emperor Leo I (or possibly of Athena). Constantinople, Hippodrome. 457-474
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
In the imperial loge (kathisma) of the hippodrome, according to our sources
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue, seated
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:
484
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยง 61
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 25. 101-2 no. 116
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, 78; Parastaseis 61
Berger, A., Untersuchungen zu den Patria Konstantinupoleos: Poikila Byzantina 8, Bonn 1988, 546
