The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

The man's gold-embroidered purple mantle is decorated with medallions ... idealized or standardized imperial depictions common in Byzantine art. The figure is described as an "earthly figure ...

A gold-embroidered purple mantle adorns him with medals decorated ... It is also the “last chronologically preserved portrait of an emperor in Byzantine monumental painting,” added the Ministr ...