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| 11th century. | Bell tent, pointy red apex and apron, row of dark dots then a red band , the roof is then divided into panels by thin dark red lines edge by light red lines, each of these panels are cut in half by two dark red curved lines, in each of the divisions appears to be a letter (top; o,n,o,u,o, bottom; n,o,n, o,u), at the bottom end of the four centre roof panels is a dark red/purple dot, there appears to be some purplish scallopiing at the valance on the left and right but none in the centre, on the walls of the tent a number of animals are depicted in red (including a; cat, bird, antelope and a hare), the straight sides of the door are outlined in red, the interior is a brighter red, three guy ropes and pegs are depicted on either side of the tent, along the bottom edge of the walls is a horizontal line and eight large purple dots. | Above 67. Birdcatcher, from pseudo-Oppian, Kynegetica, eleventh century. Tempera on parchment. Biblioteca Marciana, Venice. (Cod. gr. 479, fol. 2v). | Mathews, T.F., Byzantium from Antiquity to the Renaissance, 1998, New York, p. 88 - 89. |
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