Literary record of statue of Zeno I, emperor. Constantinople, Chalke. 474-491
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Constantinople, area of the Chalke, according to our sources
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue, standing
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Zeno
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Not recorded
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
474
Latest:
491
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยงยง 32, 80
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 102 no. 118
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, 27, 28; Parastaseis 32, 80
Berger, A., Untersuchungen zu den Patria Konstantinupoleos: Poikila Byzantina 8, Bonn 1988, 245
