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druzhina
01-30-2017, 05:49
I have a small collection of 12th century Byzantine Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers:
Greek Psalter, Byzantine, 12th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Vat.gr.1927 (http://warfare.tk/12/Psalter-Vat_gr_1927.htm)
Saints Theodore, George and Demetrius on a Steatite, Cherson, Byzantine, early 12th century (http://warfare.tk/12/Cherson_Steatite.htm)
Plates depicting the Byzantine hero, Digenis Akritas, 12th century (http://warfare.tk/12/Digenis_Akritas_fights_a_beast.htm)
Bowl with the Ascension of Alexander the Great, Byzantine, 12th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, W-72 (http://warfare.tk/12/Byzantine-Bowl-Alexander-Hermitage-W-72.htm)
Dish with the Ascension of Alexander the Great, Byzantine, 12th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, W-1501 (http://warfare.tk/12/Dish-Alexander-Heaven-Hermitage-W-1501.htm)
David and Goliath, Byzantine Psalter, Palestine or Cyprus, 12th century. BL Add MS 40753 (http://warfare.tk/12/Byzantine-Psalter-Add_40753-David_and_Goliath.htm)
Codex Græcus Matritensis Ioannis Skyllitzes Chronicle, Byzantine Italy, 12th Centuries (http://warfare.tk/12/Scylitzes-Chronicle.htm)
Fresco of Joshua from Hosios Loukas (St. Lucas) monastery in Boeotia, Greece, 12th-13th century (http://warfare.tk/12/Byzantine_fresca_from_St-Lucas.htm)

There is also Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, of post-Byzantine Greeks in Norman southern Italy or Sicily. (http://warfare.tk/12/Salerno_Ivories.htm)

Are there other useful Byzantine military illustrations from this century?

Mirror site:
Greek Psalter, Byzantine, 12th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Vat.gr.1927 (http://warfare.ga/12/Psalter-Vat_gr_1927.htm)

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