A Wikipedia article on the Colossus of Constantine, an acrolithic statue of Constantine the Great carved circa 312-315 AD, describing its construction (a carved marble head, arms and legs on a brick core and wooden frame), its original scale of roughly 12-13 metres seated in the apse of the Basilica of Maxentius, and its surviving fragments held today by the Capitoline Museums in Rome. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Constantine
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used for uncontroversial art-historical facts about the statue's construction and original setting, corroborated by a second, independently written Wikipedia article on the holding museum. Connections
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This source names Constantine the Great directly: "Constantine, an acrolithic statue of Constantine the Great carved circa 312-315 AD, describing its construction (a carved marble head, arms and legs on a brick core and wooden frame), its original..."
Source Colossus of Constantine (Wikipedia)
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This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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