Depictions of the Byzantine folk hero Diogenes Akritas, 12th century
You may have seen a drawing of Diogenes Akritas on a Byzantine plate, supposedly the only illustration of shoulder tufts mentioned in Leo VI's Tactica. Here is a colour photo of the actual plate:
Digenis (Diogenes) Akritas fights the dragon (http://warfare2.netai.net/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_fights_the_dragon.htm)
(http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=11978&d=1390547738)
And other depictions of Diogenes Akritas:
Digenis Akritas slays the dragon with five arrows (http://warfare2.netai.net/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_slays_the_dragon.htm)
Digenis Akritas saves a princess abandoned in the desert (http://warfare2.netai.net/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_saves_a_princess.htm)
MIRROR SITE
Digenis (Diogenes) Akritas fights the dragon (http://warfare.likamva.in/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_fights_the_dragon.htm)
Digenis Akritas slays the dragon with five arrows (http://warfare.likamva.in/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_slays_the_dragon.htm)
Digenis Akritas saves a princess abandoned in the desert (http://warfare.likamva.in/Medieval/Digenis_Akritas_saves_a_princess.htm)
Druzhina
12th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.atspace.eu/Medieval2/12C.htm)
Busy man that Diogenes!
Great finds D! 8)