Textile fragment with hippocampus design from Santa Sanctorum, Rome. The theme is based on a Sassanian original, but the stylizations are typically Byzantine. This imported textile was donated to Mozac monastey by Pepin in 761. Encaustic panel painting of Madonna and Child, flanked by Saints Theodore and George and two angels. Perhaps made in Constantinople at beg.
Frontal saints are intense and flatened.
The angels are more impressionistic.