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11-30-2014, 05:34
11th Century Byzantine Illustrations of Soldiers

Saints Mercurios, Theodore Tiron, Demetrios and Prokopius as military saints, Hosios Loukas Monastery, Boeotia, Greece, early 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Hosios_Loukas.htm)
The Portrait Illumination of Basil II Bulgaroctonos in his Psalter, Byzantine, c.1017. Cod. Marc. gr. 17. f3r. (http://warfare.tk/11/Psalter_of_Basil_II-3r.htm)
A Byzantine Ivory Casket, Victoria and Albert Museum 247:1, 2-1865, early 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_Casket_VaA-11C-top-detail.htm)
Saint Demetrios, Steatite, Byzantine, Louvre, early 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Demetrios_Steatite-Louvre.htm)
St Procopius in the lamellar with two rivets, Constantinople, 1030AD, MS A648, p. 60r, National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia (http://warfare.tk/11/Georgia-8-St_Procopius_MSA648-60r.htm)
The Betrayal, Nea Moni, Chios, mosaic of the inner Narthex, Byzantine, 1043 AD (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Nea_Moni-Chios-Betrayal.htm)
Two Warriors on Horseback on a Casket Lid, Victoria & Albert Museum No: A.542:1-1910, Byzantine, mid 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_casket_top_with_cavalry-VaA.htm)
Byzantine Mosaic depicting the soldier, Longinus, in the Nea Moni Church, Chios, Greece, c.1050AD (http://warfare.tk/11/Longinus-Chios-c1050.htm)
A Byzantine Plaque of Saint Theodore as a soldier, British Museum AN265591001, 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-plaque-St_Theodore.htm)
Naval battle in the The Cynegetica of Pseudo-Oppian, Byzantine, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Ms Grec 479, Venice, 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Cynegetica-24r.htm)
A Siege in The Cynegetica of Pseudo-Oppian, Byzantine, 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Cynegetica-Arab_fort.htm)
Horsemen in The Life of St Alessio in the Church of San Clemente, Rome, Italy, 11th Century (http://warfare.gq/6C-11C/Life_of_St_Alessio-San_Clemente-Italy-11C-horsemen.htm)
Bristol Psalter, London, British Library, Add. MS 40731, Byzantine, 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Bristol_Psalter.htm)
Details of Psiloi from a Byzantine Casket, Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg, ?-18, 11th century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_Casket_Hermitage.htm)
Varangian centurion and gambling soldiers from an 11th century gold and enamel Byzantine ikon of the Crucifixion. Germany (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_Icon-Germany.htm)
Saint George on a Steatite Icon, Byzantine, Vatopedi monastery, Athos, Greece, 11th Century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-George_Steatite-Vatopedi.htm)
Steatite Icon of St Theodore Stratelates, Byzantine, 11th Century, Vatican (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Steatite-Theodore_Stratelates-Vatican.htm)
Psalter of Theodore of Caesarea, Byzantine, 1066AD (http://warfare.tk/11/Theodore_Psalter.htm)
The Hidden Church (Sakli Kilise) Cappadocia, Turkey, showing Byzantine soldiers, by Steven Lowe (http://warfare.tk/11/HiddenChurch.html)
Greek Gospel book in the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence (Plut. 6.23), Byzantine (http://warfare.tk/11/Gospel-Plut_06_23.htm)
Barlaam and Ioasaph, The Holy Monastery of Iveron, Mount Athos, Byzantine Greece, Codex. 463, c.1075-1125AD (http://warfare.tk/11/Barlaam_and_Ioasaph-Mount_Athos_Cod_463-f3r-7r.htm)
Turkic cavalry on a Byzantine Ivory Casket, 11-12th Centuries (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_Casket_VaA-11-12C-top-detail.htm)
Casket Showing Heracles, Centaurs and Musicians, Byzantine, 11th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, ?-20 (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Casket-Hermitage-W-20.htm)
Triptych Showing the Forty Martyrs, Byzantine, late 11th - early 12th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, W-299 (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Triptych_40_Martyrs-Hermitage-W-299.htm)
Icon of Warrior Saints George, Theodore and Demetrius, Byzantine, Late 11th - early 12th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, I-183 (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Icon-Saints-Hermitage-I-183.htm)
Slate Icon of Saints George and Demetrius, Byzantine, Late 11th - early 12th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, X-103 (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine-Slate_Icon-Hermitage-X-103.htm)
Saint Demetrius or Saint George, Byzantine Steatite Icon, 11th or 12th Century (http://warfare.tk/11/Byzantine_Icon-Steatite.htm)
Warrior Saints, Serpent Church, Göreme, Byzantine, 11th-12th centuries (http://warfare.tk/11/Goreme-Serpent_Church.htm)

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Byzantine Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.ga/Byzantine.htm)

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Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.tk/index.htm)