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LSA-2763 Literary record of statue of Sophia, wife of emperor Justin II. Constantinople, Baths of Zeuxippus. 565-566










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Constantinople Province: Constantinople Region: Constantinople
Details: Recorded at the entrance of the baths of Zeuxippus
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: Julianus, prefect of the city Position: Prefects of Constantinople
DATE
Earliest: 565 Latest: 566
MAIN REFERENCE
Cameron, A. & J. Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century. The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Introduction, translation and commentary, Leiden 1984, Parastaseis 81

Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, no. 134

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