Colossus of Barletta

• The Colossus is a giant Bronze statue of an Eastern Roman Emperor, 16ft 7in tall (5.11m) located at C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 20, in Barletta.
• It was found washed up on the beach from a Venetian shipwreck, after the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE).

Attribution

• The Statue has been variously attributed to be of Valentinian I (364-375 CE), Theodosius I (379-395 CE) or Justinian I (527-565 CE).

Colossus of Barletta, Barletta