Literary record of statue of Justinian I, emperor, and his wife Theodora. Constantinople, Baths of Zeuxippus. 527-548
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Recorded in front of the Baths of Zeuxippus
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Justinian I and Theodora
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Not recorded
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
527
Latest:
548
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยง 81
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 104 no. 128
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 81
