Specific images and types in medieval Roman imagery express meanings that do not fit into the traditional academic divide between East and West. Some types—such as the Transfiguration, the Deesis, and the Anastasis—appear to stand out amidst Roman imagery as belonging to the so-called Byzantine tradition because these forms became notable parts of a canonized Eastern tradition at a later date. But in the eighth and ninth century these forms did not necessarily connote division or difference. Rather, these medieval images reveal inventiveness, experimentation, and hybridity. Some images in Rome called attention to “Greeks” as different, and some images belonged to a more generalizing Roman idiom. By studying the way specific examples of iconographical types functioned in specific Roman churches, this project will be an attempt to clarify what role the East did or did not play in the imagery of early medieval Rome.