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Illustration from
Scylitzes Chronicle
f151r lower. Byzantines besiege Mopsuastia
A larger image of Byzantines besiege Mopsuastia, Scylitzes Chronicle
Bibliteca Nacional de Madrid, Vitr. 26-2, Bild-Nr. 77
Referenced as figure 609 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
609A to 609I. Manuscript, A - "Infantry weapons," B - "Byzantines besiege Mopsuastia," C - "Byzantines besiege Proslav," D - "Arabs attack Edessa," E - "Arabs defeat Procopius," F - "Arabs sack Salonika," G - "Emir defeated by Bardes," H - "Arabs," I - "Saracens," Skylitzes, 12th-13th centuries AD, Siculo-Byzantine, Bib. Nac., Cod. 5-3. N. 2, ff. 151v, 166r, 208, 99v, 111v, 136v, 116v, 39v, 41r and 54v, Madrid (Grab, Sev).
Referenced on p.29 Byzantine Infantryman, Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1024 by Timothy Dawson
A siege scene with tents and traction trebuchet from the illuminated chronicle of Skylitzes. Although this manuscript was illustrated in Sicily in the 12th century, it drew heavily on East Roman sources of the previous centuries as well as contemporary observation. (Biblioteca Nacionale, Madrid)