The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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St Helena, Empress (246/50 - 330)

Mother of Constantine I. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07202b.htm Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_%28Empress%29 Relationships: Constantine I (272-337) was a son of St Helena
Constantius I (c. 250-25 Jul 306) was a husband of St Helena
Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a work of art - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Head of Seneca in Plaister; it is very large, a Yard within six Inches round, seems to be ancient and very agreeable to his Statue at Rome: This was amongst the Lord Fairfax's Curiosities. Atlas. An Emperor's Bust. Helena's. Laocoon and his Sisters. Archbishop Dolben's, from his Tomb. Mr. John Thoresby's the Antiquary. A Skeleton in Metal; it is well done, but only to the short Ribs. Venus and Cupid in Wax-work. A Sort of Bachus, or Antick, pouring out Liquor, with a Bull's Head betwixt his Thighs, or perhaps a Rams, relating to some Local Custom, like that of a Flitch of Bacon at Dunmoe in Essex: It is of Wood, and hath in old Characters Belly merry In a different script.

Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) Fl: Jul: Helena. 3.