The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople

Sarah Bassett is Associate Professor of Art History at Wayne State University. A scholar of late antique and Byzantine art, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Dumbarton Oaks. She has contributed to Dumbarton Oaks Papers,The American Journal of Archaeology, and The Art Bulletin.

• List of illustrations; Periodicals: abbreviations; Primary sources; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. The shape of the city; 2. Creating the collection; 3. The Constantinian collections; 4. Theodosian Constantinople; 5. The Lausos collection; 6. Justinian and antiquity; The catalogue; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

'Sarah Bassett's study of the reuse of ancient sculpture in early Constantinople offers a unique approach to the creation of a civic identity in the Late Antique period, and an important reassessment of the foundation of the Byzantine capital.' Cornucopia