Abstract
The veracity of the literary sources relating to a collection of ancient sculpture in fifth-century Constantinople has been doubted, but they can be shown to have a likely basis in historical fact. The order in which the statues are said to have stood in the Palace of Lausus points towards a programmatic arrangement, a kind ofImago mundi which was Christian in character, as might have been expected from the interests and patronage ofLausus, chief chamberlain of the Byzantine court at the time when pagan temples were going out of use, and when major pieces of ancient sculpture - including the chryselephantine Zeus at Olympiu - were for once available.
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