Byzantine society was patriarchal and the role of women limited. But some women did play an important role; Anicia Juliana was one of these: marble bust of a woman, said to depict Anicia Juliana, from the late 5th- early 6th century.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters Collection, 1966. (66.25)
Photograph ©1993 The Metropolitan Museum, of Art, New York