11th C Triumphal Klivanion - Emperors entered the City through the Golden Gate, they were met by a party of Prôtospatharioi on horseback. Those courtiers wore gilded klivania over a garment described as a “true-purple spekion with gold clavii”. Taken from a manuscript portrait of the Proximos Iôannês, donor of the Adrianople Gospels. That picture is annotated, not only with the donor’s name, but with his rank, court function and the date of execution, 1007. Created by Tim Dawson, Leeds.