ABSTRACT
Large-scale sculpture and public statuary are not commonly associated with the art of the eastern Roman empire after the seventh century. Older monuments survived and sometimes occasioned comment, but the evidence for a revival of portrait statuary under Constantine VI and Eirene that has been mooted is late and unreliable. I While it is possible that Leo III was responsible for two monumental sculptural groups, surviving non-architectural sculpture from the period between ca 700 and ca 850 is confined to ivories.
