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Sophia
Adler number: sigma,809
Translated headword: [Holy] Wisdom, [Agia] Sophia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that from the side of [the church of] the Holy Wisdom were removed 427 Greek [i.e. pagan] monuments, of Greek gods and of Carus the stepfather of Diocletian and of the 12 signs of the zodiac; and of Christian emperors 80 monuments, which Justinian distributed around the city [when] he built the great temple.[1]
Greek Original:Sophia. hoti apo tou pleurou tês hagias Sophias stêlai aphêirethêsan Hellênikai ukz# theôn Hellênikôn kai Karou patrôiou Dioklêtianou kai tôn ib# zôidiôn: basileôn de Christianôn stêlai p#, has Ioustinianos merisas têi polei ton megan naon ôikodomêse.
Notes:
cf. Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 26.4ff. Chapter 11, lines 1-5 of the
Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai refer to the same theft of monuments (and the editors register this parallel passage in the Suda). [Note and bibliography provided by Konstantinos A. Zafeiris.]
[1] cf.
iota 446.
Reference:
Cameron, A. and J. Herrin, eds. Constantinople in the early eighth century: the Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai, Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 10 (Leiden, 1984)
Keywords: architecture; art history; biography; Christianity; chronology; history; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 November 2003@19:03:31.
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