A hand-held Greek fire flamethrower, depicted in a Byzantine military manual as a way to attack a besieged city.
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against the defenders on the walls. Medieval illumination in the manuscript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605.

Collection: Images

Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.

Chronology: VII

Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education

Link: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Hand-siphon_for_Greek_fire,_medieval_illumination.jpg

Resource type: Image

Format: Images

Source: Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605 (taken from Pászthory, p. 31)

Date: 1605

Owner: Porto group (Modernalia)

Abstract: Armament

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