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This article is not about the late Byzantine Empire, but rather about the late Roman Empire or the Early Byzantine Empire. It should be merged with the Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism — Preceding unsigned comment added by Astrohoundy ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 22 March 2016 (UTC) reply

• I moved the article to "early". Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:22, 26 March 2016 (UTC) reply

It turns out that the current caption for File:Symmachi-Nicomachi_diptych_2.JPG is incorrect. It reads "Ivory diptych of a priestess of Ceres, still in fully classical style, ca 400, which was defaced and thrown in a well at Montier-en-Der. ^[1]." The cited source doesn't corroborate this, nor does the actual article on this piece. The article makes it clear that it was intact, and only later "heavily damaged by fire" during the French Revolution. It was found in a well, but only after remaining fully intact and incorporated into a Christian reliquary. There is no mention whatsoever that it was "defaced," which is especially relevant given that the other panel of diptych is less damaged, and the face of its figure has entirely survived. There's more corroboration on this here. Note that this is also the case at Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, where the same image appears with the same caption (mistakenly restored by me after an anonymous edit sparked my investigation). In light of this, I will be removing both images from both articles. Global Cerebral Ischemia ( talk) 13:56, 28 August 2019 (UTC) reply

Just skimming the two articles, it looks as though this one contains a fair amount of properly-sourced material that isn't duplicated in the article it's said to be a duplicate of, and some of it certainly concerns eastern emperors, alone or acting in concert with western emperors. Unless closer scrutiny shows that the appearance of unique material is illusory, the better way to address this would be to merge the usable content from here into the other article, not to delete this one entirely. In the alternative, this one could be trimmed down by removing fully duplicative material, and the remainder either expanded with available knowledge that doesn't belong in the Roman one, or left as a stub for future expansion, if that seems like a reasonable possibility. Note that in some cases there's bound to be some overlap, if there is enough of a topic here to support an article; to the extent that the two halves of the empire acted in concert, or the events of one half influenced the other, that would be relevant here, even if it's also mentioned in the other article, as long as this one contains notable material that isn't duplicated there. Whether to merge the two articles, or trim this one down, is a question that needs to be explored further. But simply deleting this one without attempting either option doesn't sound like the right solution. P Aculeius ( talk) 14:10, 29 August 2019 (UTC) reply

Fair enough. Hopefully someone actually *does* those things. I'll see what I can do when I get a chance; hopefully others will help. Global Cerebral Ischemia ( talk) 18:57, 29 August 2019 (UTC) reply

A discussion about possibly deleting this article is taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#"Anti-paganism policy"/persecution articles. Avilich ( talk) 03:48, 6 June 2021 (UTC) reply