XIR244979 Emperor Justinian I and his retinue of officials, guards and clergy, c.547 AD (mosaic) by Byzantine School, (6th century); San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy; (add.info.: Justinian I (483-565) is depicted carrying, possibly, Eucharist bread or a paten or a symbolic basket for receiving tribute; to his right, possibly, Belisarius and on the left, possibly, the banker, Julianus Argentarius, who paid for the building of the church; also shown is Maximian, archbishop of Ravenna from 545-553; the group of soldiers carry a shield with the Chi-Rho emblem, alluding to the victory of Constantine at the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD; Archibishop Maximian;); out of copyright.