Plutei of Theodota

The Plutei of Theodota are two mid 8th-century Lombard marble bas-reliefs or plutei from the oratory of San Michele alla Pusterla in Italy.

[1] They are now held in the Civic Museums of Pavia.

Naturalistic in style, they were produced during the Liutprandean Renaissance.

[2] One shows the Tree of Life between two griffins and the other shows a cross and font between two peacocks.

[3] They are named after Theodota, a Byzantine noblewoman[1] who became the lover of king Cunipert (688–700), who later placed her in the Santa Maria Teodote monastery, also known as Santa Maria della Pusterla[1][4] (now the Diocesan Seminary for Pavia), near which was later built the oratorio di San Michele.