This 1880s illustration shows a diptych (object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by hinge) of a Comes Largitionum Sacrarum, one of the senior fiscal officials of the late Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. The insignia of the comes largitionum sacrarum in the Notitia Dignitatum (details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western Roman empires): money bags and pieces of ore signifying his control over mines and mints, and the codicil of his appointment on a stand. .

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Keywords: 300s, 4th, ad, byzantine, century, dignitatum, diptych, empire, fourth, insignia, largitionum, late, notitia, official, officials, roman, sacrarum, senior