The mosaic depicts Christ Pantocrator, the Almighty, in a scene out of Revelation 4. He is pointing with two fingers, a Nicene symbol of Jesus’ two natures and the Trinity. The apostles sit on either side, while the four creatures representing the four evangelists (angel, lion, ox, eagle) hover above the scene. The twelve apostles, two of whose images in the mosaic were cut out during a reconstruction, sit at the table on both sides of Christ. They all gesture among themselves, while two women, Praxedes (Prassede) and Pudentiana (Pudenziana), one on either side of Christ, hold crowns over the heads of the two closest to Christ. The bearded men are dressed in the toga, which was senatorial dress. Christ is seated on an ornate, heavenly throne.