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Title: Illustrations of Romans in a 6th-7thC Manuscript
Post by: Druzhina on 13 August 2012, 02:53:46 AM
Illustrations of Romans in a 6th-7thC  Manuscript

Pharaoh's army drowns, from the Ashburnham Pentateuch (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f68r.htm) & a detail (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f68r-detail.htm)
(http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=6517&d=1344822234)

Pharaoh allowing Joseph to go to Canaan (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f50r.htm), a detail (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f50r-detail-1.htm) & another detail (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f50r-detail-2.htm)

Druzhina
sites of wargaming interest (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/index.htm)
Title: Re: Illustrations of Romans in a 6th-7thC Manuscript
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 August 2012, 06:34:35 AM
If anyone ever doubted the Roman army was colourful...
Title: Re: Illustrations of Romans in a 6th-7thC Manuscript
Post by: Luddite on 18 August 2012, 11:51:13 AM
You have to see these images through the lens of 'artistic license'.   ;)


 
Title: Re: Illustrations of Romans in a 6th-7thC Manuscript
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 18 August 2012, 02:03:32 PM
I know, like all the later illuminated manuscripts, which led to a whole generation of phygian caps on Saxons,