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8th century resources:
Painted Soghdian Horseman on a Shield from Mount Mugh, early 8th century. Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
Umayyad Coin of Yazīd ibn al Muhallab, early 8th century AD
The Franks Casket / The Auzon Casket, Anglo-Saxon, early 8th century, British Museum
Floor painting with hunting scene, Umayyad, Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi c.724-43AD
. Khorasanian Horse Archer in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath, based on the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi floor painting.
Fresco of the Crucifixion from Santa Maria Antiqua, 741–52AD, Rome, Italy
The Adoration of the Magi on the Altar of Ratchis, Lombard, c. 749 AD. Cathedral Museum, Cividale del Friuli, Italy.
Stucco Fragments of a Horse and Rider. Umayyad, Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, Syria, mid-8th century AD, National Museum, Damascus
'Pur-i Vahman' plate with a Horsearcher Hunting, Khurisani or Soghdian, c.8th Century. S-247
. Sogdian Horse Archer in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath, based on the 'Pur-i Vahman' plate
Umayyad Frescos from Quṣayr ʿAmra, mid-8th century AD, Syrian, in situ, Jordan
Umayyad Stucco Statuette, Khirbat al Mafjar, Palestine, mid-8th century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem.
Soldiers on Umayyad or Abbasid Ivory Plaques, mid-8th century AD, Humaymah, Jordan.
Umayyad or Abbasid Plate with Mounted Warrior, Iran, 8th Century, LACMA, M.76.174.273.
Crucifixion from an Irish Evangelary (Quatuor evangelia), c.750AD. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51.
Irish Horsemen and Chariot on a Stone Cross, 8th century, Ahenny, County Tipperary, Ireland.
Umayyad Fresco of an Archer, Khirbat al Mafjar, near Jericho, Palestine, 8th century AD.
Textile with Soldiers Hunting. Byzantine, 8th century. Museo Sacro, Vatican.
Nubian Warrior Saint. Mural from the Cathedral in Faras, Sudan, 8th-century.
The Repton Stone, Anglo-Saxon, 8th century, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Archangel Michael, Nubia. Mural from the Cathedral in Faras, Sudan, late 8th century.
A Carolingian Cavalryman in the Gellone Sacramentary, c.790-95, BnF Ms. Lat. 12048, Paris, France
Picts on a detail of the rear of the Aberlemno 2 Stone (The kirkyard stone), 8th-9th centuries
Picts on a detail of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone, 8th to 9th centuries
An Irish warrior in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD. Trinity College Dublin.
The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
An Irishman wearing ankle-length trews held taut with instep straps in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
Small figures in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
Columns of figures on the frontis-pieces in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
. Irish Warriors in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath, based on the Book of Kells
Carved Relief of Huntsmen, Cathedral, Civita Castellana, Italy, 8th or 9th century
Arab, Syrian or Byzantine Horse Archers, on silk textiles, 7th-9th Centuries
Irish Statue of a King, 8th or 9th century, White Island, County Fermanagh, Ireland.
Casket with spearmen, Northern Spain, 8th-10th century, Glencairn Museum
Abbasid Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers






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