The mosaics include no human figures, which makes them different from the otherwise similar contemporary Byzantine works.
They used to simply consist of marble or stone, and had little decoration, unlike the rich mosaics found in Italian Byzantine architectural works.
As with many other Byzantine works, it is written in an archaic form of Greek, meant to imitate the classical style (e.g. Thucidydes).
Western icons, which are not usually so termed, were largely patterned on Byzantine works, and equally conventional in composition and depiction.
That's how a Byzantine works.
Etymologicum genuinum is a grammatical encyclopedia edited at Constantinople in the ninth century, one of several similar Byzantine works.
This ensemble of Byzantine works, depicting scenes from the Bible and the life of Jesus, is among the world's finest.
However, Rascia appears scarcely in Serbian and never in Byzantine works to denote the state.
From the 11th century until the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Serbs were called Triballians in Byzantine works.
Nevertheless a classical realist tradition persisted in small Byzantine works, and realism steadily grew in the art of Catholic Europe.