From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the
Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted
a collection of antiquities unrivalled by any city of the medieval
world. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople reconstructs
the collection from the time that the city was founded by
Constantine the Great through the sixth-century reign of the
emperor Justinian. Drawing on medieval literary sources and, to a
lesser extent, graphic and archaeological material, it identifies
and describes the antiquities that were known to have stood in the
city's public spaces. Individual displays of statues are analysed
as well as examined in conjunction with one another against the
city's topographical setting, in an effort to understand how
ancient sculpture was used to create a distinct historical identity
for Constantinople.
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