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  • Sketches of the seal of Empress Irene Laskarina recovered during excavations at the medieval site of Perperikon, Bulgaria
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  • Coin of John Gabalas, lord of Rhodes, from the Gabalas family, a family of Byzantine naval leaders
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  • John Tzimiskes orders the exile of Empress Theophano, illumination from the Madrid Skylitzes, 12th century
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  • Gold coins of Irene of Byzantium, empress and sole ruler of Byzantium
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  • Portrait of the four emperors of the Laskarid-Vatatzes dynasty
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  • Depiction of the Varangian Guard, Byzantium's Viking and Anglo-Saxon Bodyguard, in the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript
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  • Fresco depicting the Virgin Galaktotrophousa (the Nursing Virgin), in the Omorphi Ekklisia in Aegina, Greece
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    Virgin Galaktotrophousa, the rare depiction of the Nursing Virgin in Byzantine Art

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