Assignment:
These early Christian empires demonstrate the importance of developing a symbolic vocabulary that mimics earlier cultural traditions. Choose a visual symbol (the halo, angel wings, Celtic knotting, etc.) and describe how that symbol has been adapted to illustrate a Christian concept. Use specific artifacts to support your argument and try to explain the contextual significance, if any of such design decisions.
This is a thematic response and may require more than one artwork to help support your description of how a particular symbol is read. Be sure to use artifacts from the time, and, if you wish, you may use contemporary artifacts to show the continuance of this symbolic vocabulary.