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Deutsch: Einsatz eines Handsiphones, eines tragbaren Flammenwerfers, von einem Belagerungsturm aus. Ausschnitt aus dem mittelalterlichen Manuskript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605.
English: Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower. Detail from the medieval manuscript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605.
Date 9th or 11th century AD
Source Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605 (taken from Pászthory, p. 31)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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Emmerich Pászthory: "Über das 'Griechische Feuer'. Die Analyse eines spätantiken Waffensystems", Antike Welt, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1986), pp. 27–38

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Use of a hand siphon, a portable flamethrower, from a siege tower. Detail from the medieval manuscript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605.

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