File:Hand-siphon for Greek fire, medieval illumination.jpg

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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.
Date	9th or 11th century AD
Source	Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1605 (taken from Pászthory, p. 31)
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author
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References

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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