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Emperor Justinian I (about 482 - 565) and Bishop Maximianus of Ravenna (498/499 - 556) with court officials and guards. Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus, also known as Justinian I, was from 527 to his death in 565 Roman Emperor. Justinian was one of the most important rulers of Late Antiquity. Woodcut engraving after a mosaic of the Church of St. Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, published in 1881.