ABSTRACT Imperial statues are an often overlooked, but vital source for the study of late-antique emperorship. This study offers the first comprehensive investigation of imperial statues set up by urban communities and governors in the cities and sanctuaries of Greece in the late third and fourth centuries Ad. Its aim is twofold. First, it offers several notable case studies of the dynastic statue assemblages and their constant modification, neat illustrations of the importance of the dynastic idea in the reception of late-antique imperial rule in the provinces and the attention paid to shifts in imperial ideology. Secondly, the paper reflects on mechanisms of commissioning, the statues’ purpose and their possible religious dimension.
M. Moser (Mon,) studied this question.