Literary record of gilded bronze statue of Sophia, wife of emperor Justin II. Constantinople, Milion. 565-578
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Constantinople
Province:
Constantinople
Region:
Constantinople
Details:
Recorded at the MIlion
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Statue
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Height(cm):
Attributes:
Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Aelia Sophia, wife of Justin II
Position:
Imperial Family
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Not recorded
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
565
Latest:
578
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, ยง 35
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, 112 no. 133
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 35; Patria II, 30
