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Scylitzes Chronicle

f41r upper.   Cretan Saracens pursue Krateros and capture and hang him at Kos





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).

Back to the smaller image of Cretan Saracens pursue Krateros and capture and hang him at Kos. f41r upper. Skylitzes Chronicle (Codex Gręcus Matritensis), Byzantine.