11-23-2008, 06:46 PM
The book that could provide an answer for you is The Age of the Dromon: the Byzantine navy ca 500-1204 by John Pryor, Elizabeth M. Jeffreys and Ahmad Shbou. You may have to track this down at a university library it is rather expensive and I am trying to talk Santa into buying it for me.
One illumination in the Skylitzes manuscript (fol. 147) shows boarding by ladders but this is later than your period of interest. Skylites fol. 147
One illumination in the Skylitzes manuscript (fol. 147) shows boarding by ladders but this is later than your period of interest. Skylites fol. 147
Peter Raftos
