TENT - [Fwd: Re: Byzantine Tents?]]

[Tanya Guptill]

rmhowe wrote:

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>
> The only extant pictures I've seen of Byzantine tents is in the
> Metropolitan Museum of Art book The Glory of Byzantium Art and Culture
> of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843 - 1261. ISBN 0-87099-778-5.
> On page 6 there is a scene from the Chronicles of John Skylitzes. It
> shows Byzantine siege engines and 3 tents  outside a city. Two of them
> look like pup tents staked down along the sides and the ends roped
> down. The other looks like...I hate to say this... a Mongol yurt. The
> circular wall looks taller than the "pup" tents and as tall as the
> nearby men. It has ropes and stakes like I've seen on Mongol yurts.
> The top is a low cone with a ball on top. Orange wall, yellow band of
> trim at the top, red roof with a yellow ball on top.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Grace and Peace,
>
> Jovian Skleros

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