Miniature of Emperor Nikephoros II (r. 963–969) from a 15th-century manuscript; Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Marc. Lat. 342 (X 158, coll. 3749), fol.1r: Valentinelli 1868–1873, 6.305.
For a discussion of the portrait, see <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Burke, John (2014)      <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/8343815/Inventing_and_re_inventing_Byzantium_Nikephoros_Phokas_Byzantine_Studies_in_Greece_and_New_Rome">Inventing and re-inventing Byzantium: Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantine Studies in Greece, and 'New Rome'</a></i>, pp. 5−10  <small></small></cite>
Unknown Byzantine artist
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