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A friend needed a bed following a row with his partner, so I gave him an air mattress in my office

I’ve finally managed to finish reading this comprehensive book and can really recommend it to anyone looking to gain a deeper insight into the Byzantine intellectual world

A well-preserved funerary relief of a woman, in the style of the early Imperial period, into which the inscription ‘IOANES EVANGELISTA’ was carved during the Renaissance.
The figure is dressed in a tunic and wrapped in a cloak with densely grooved folds. In their right arm, resting on their chest, the figure holds the end of the cloak in the form of a loop, which is a pattern of female figures in Roman monuments. In their lowered left hand, the figure holds a re-carved object like a feather or a scroll, in accordance with the Christian dedicatee. The Renaissance sculptor has reinterpreted the ancient portrait of a deceased woman in the figure of the youngest of the evangelists, giving him a male haircut and a halo in bas-relief.

Found in a church on Marjan Hill near Split; now in the Diocesan Museum of Split Cathedral (which is, in turn, the ancient mausoleum of Emperor Diocletian).
Photos were taken today.