Anachronistic depiction of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_the_Byzantine_emperor" class="extiw" title="en:Coronation of the Byzantine emperor">Byzantine imperial coronation</a> by being raised on a shield and crowned. Usually identified as the coronation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I_Rhangabe" class="extiw" title="en:Michael I Rhangabe">Michael I Rhangabe</a> due to its position in the text of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:Madrid Skylitzes">Madrid Skylitzes</a></i>, the image probably depicts the coronation of a co-emperor (left) by a senior emperor (right), and may be drawn from an unrelated original source. Vasiliki Tsamakda, <i>The Illustrated Chronicle of Ionnes Skylitzes in Madrid</i>, (Leiden, 2002), pp. 44–45.
<span lang="en">Anonymous</span><span style="display:none">Unknown author</span>
<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:Madrid Skylitzes">Madrid Skylitzes</a></i>, fol. 10v