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MOSAIC DATING FROM THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE YEARS 546 AND 548 – CHURCH OF SAINT VITALE, RAVENNA.
The hieratic splendour of Byzantine clothing is represented here in this image of the emperor Justinian.
A two-tiered gemstone encrusted crown, purple imperial chlamys with a large lozenge shaped golden panel (tablion) and an opulent brooch, a white silk tunic with tight sleeves (Divitision), decorated with gold strips and circular roundels and gold embroidered red shoes (calcei).
Dignitaries wear a white chlamys with a purple tablion and an embroidered tunic.
The archbishop Maximianus is depicted with an ecclesiastical pallium ( a white wool strip draped around his neck and with a loose end on the front decorated with a cross),a golden chasuble, white dalmatic with very wide sleeves and purple strips.
