Bertolami Fine Art
Auction 12 29-30 October 2014
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Time of Anastasius I (491-518), Incuse Contorniate, Rome, c. AD 491-518; AE (g 27,95; mm 37; h 6); Charioteer on horse l, holding whip.; on r., engraved and silvered palm-branch, Rv. POR - P - YRI, charioteer Porphyrius standing facing, head r., holding whip and palm frond; vase containing tree palm fronds on either side. Cfr. Alföldi 630-673; A. Cameron, Porphyrius the Charioteer, Oxford 1973.
Very rare, green patina, extremely fine.
At the center of the forum of Constantinople there was a column of Theodosius, who drew the famous Trajan's Column in Rome. Theodosius chose to copy the monuments of Rome to Constantinople, in order to connect the two cities. On the top of the column there was a statue of Theodosius, which remained unharmed after the earthquake of AD 447, but it gave way during a second seismic event. The column was left without a statue until AD 506 when John Paphlagoniae restored all the statues of Constantinople and he erected a new statue for Anastasius I.
Very rare, green patina, extremely fine.
At the center of the forum of Constantinople there was a column of Theodosius, who drew the famous Trajan's Column in Rome. Theodosius chose to copy the monuments of Rome to Constantinople, in order to connect the two cities. On the top of the column there was a statue of Theodosius, which remained unharmed after the earthquake of AD 447, but it gave way during a second seismic event. The column was left without a statue until AD 506 when John Paphlagoniae restored all the statues of Constantinople and he erected a new statue for Anastasius I.