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  • English: Image from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of the rebel Thomas the Slav.

  • العربية: صورة من مخطوطة مضيئة تظهر النار الإغريقية المستخدمة ضد أسطول المتمرد توماس الصقلبي


The caption above the left ship reads, στόλος Ρωμαίων πυρπολῶν τὸν τῶν ἐναντίων στόλον, i.e. "the fleet of the Romans setting ablaze the fleet of the enemies".
Date 12th century
date QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source Codex Skylitzes Matritensis, Bibliteca Nacional de Madrid, Vitr. 26-2, Bild-Nr. 77, f 34 v. b. (taken from Pászthory, p. 31)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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References

Emmerich Pászthory: "Über das 'Griechische Feuer'. Die Analyse eines spätantiken Waffensystems", Antike Welt, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1986), pp. 27–38

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An image from an illuminated manuscript showing the Greek fire used against the renegade fleet of Thomas of Sicily

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current13:20, 14 September 2011Thumbnail for version as of 13:20, 14 September 20113,013 × 1,543 (6.74 MB)AmandajmThis file is a crop of the Wikimedia Commons file:MadridSkylitzesFol34v.jpg It replaces the earlier file which was very poorly colour and tonally adjusted.
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19:21, 31 August 2005Thumbnail for version as of 19:21, 31 August 2005736 × 330 (192 KB)Mats Halldin~commonswikiImage from an illuminated manuscript showing greek fire in use. From w:en:Image:Greekfire-madridskylitzes1.jpg. Originally uploaded from [http://www.unf.edu/classes/medieval/med-04.htm]. See also w:en:Image:Greek-fire.gif. {{p

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