Literary record of statue of 'Arcadia', said to be wife of emperor Zeno. Constantinople, by Baths of Arcadius. 474- 491?
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Recorded in a quarter called 'Topoi' in the environs of church of archangel
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Arcadia
Position:
Imperial Family
Gender:
Female
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, ยง 32
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 102 no. 119
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, Parastaseis 32; Patria II, 27
