"6th century Romano-Byzantines" Topic

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Druzhina	05 Jan 2017 9:45 p.m. PST
I have put together a collection of 6th century contemporary illustrations of Romano-Byzantine warriors: Byzantine soldiers on the Throne of Archbishop Maximian of Ravenna, Constantinople or Alexandria, 545-553AD Justinian as world conqueror. The Barberini Ivory, mid-sixth century Byzantine Horse on a textile, 6th century, The Walters Art Museum St Theodore, Coptic Icon from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai, 6th-century Romano-Byzantine Soldiers on the Sitten Pyxis, Ivory, 6th Century, Museum of Valere, Sitten Pyxis Showing Scenes from the Story of the Three Youths of Babylon, Byzantine, 6th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, W-7 Pyxis Showing Scenes from the Story of Joseph, Byzantine, 6th century. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, W-8 The Rabbula Gospels Evangelia characteribus Syriacis exarata Northern Syria, 586AD 6th-7th century Romans in the Ashburnham Pentateuch Byzantine or Lombard Armoured Cavalryman on a plate from Isola Rizza, late 6th-early 7th centuries AD Byzantine Warriors on Terracotta icons from Vinica, Macedonia, 6th or 7th century The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter – Coptic Icon in the Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, Egypt, 6th-8th century Druzhina Byzantine Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
Porthos	06 Jan 2017 3:39 a.m. PST
Thank you – again ! – for your beautiful collection !
Temporary like Achilles	06 Jan 2017 4:59 a.m. PST
Thank you!
El Nato	06 Jan 2017 2:32 p.m. PST
Nice, thank you
Oh Bugger	06 Jan 2017 4:13 p.m. PST
Oh good stuff. The bottom panel of the Justinian image at 2, are we seeing Goths, Persians, Africans and Indians? Also who is the gal beneath the hooves with, I think, a cornocopia representing? I presume that is Nike with the wings.
Druzhina	06 Jan 2017 9:19 p.m. PST
The bottom panel of the Justinian image at 2, are we seeing Goths, Persians, Africans and Indians? It has been suggested that the bottom left 2 figures, and the one behind Justinian, may be Germans in the Roman army – with decoration on tunics and trousers. 2 Indians to the right. The woman below the horse may personify 'Earth'. Druzhina 6th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
Oh Bugger	08 Jan 2017 6:06 a.m. PST
I'm thinking tribute bearers and that we are intended to read this as due to Nike's favour, ie victories, Justinian strides the earth and receives tribute from its peoples. Just a thought and I could be wrong about Nike perhaps it is an angel Justinian being a Christian Emperor.
Codsticker	09 Jan 2017 2:26 p.m. PST
I think that is a pretty good interpretation.

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