Visual reconstruction of De Ceremoniis Book 1, ch43, page 12-13



Annotations:
1.I have depicted an antimension rather than a fixed stone altar for the portable altar used in the ceremony. The exact form of the portable altar used in this Byzantine ceremony is uncertain.
2. The design of the Caesar’s crown is based on the depiction of John Doukas’s Caesar crown on a Byzantine seal. Source: Dumbarton Oaks, BZS.1958.106.3635.  https://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1958.106.3635
3.The text repeatedly refers to the “rulers” and later explicitly mentions the senior and junior emperors. I therefore included the co-emperor from this point onward.
 

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