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Description: Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against the defenders on the walls. Medieval illumination in the manuscript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605.
Title: Hand-siphon for Greek fire, medieval illumination
Credit: Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605 (taken from Pászthory, p. 31)
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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