Literary record of small gilded statue, supposedly of Euphemia, wife of emperor Justin I. Constantinople, near church of St Euphemia. 518-527
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Recorded in the quarter 'ta Olybriou' by the church of St Euphemia
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue
Material:
Bronze, gilded
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Euphemia
Position:
Imperial Family
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Not recorded
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
518
Latest:
527
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยง 30
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 104 no. 127
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 30; Patria II, 26
