“…Documentary evidence (e.g., tax records, physicians' comments, travelers' tales, military purchase records, and the dietary regimens at monasteries) and artistic representations (e.g., religious images, illustrations in manuscripts, and the mosaics and wall paintings of churches, palaces, and houses) have traditionally served as the primary sources of information about diet in the Byzantine empire (Koukoules, 1952;Dembinska, 1985;Kaplan, 1992;Mango and Dagron, 1995;Anagnostakis, 1995Anagnostakis, , 1996Flandrin and Montanari, 1996;Kislinger, 1996;Braudel, 1998;Bober, 1999;Koder, 2005;Stathakopoulos, 2007;Talbot, 2007;Tsougarakis, 2007;Anagnostakis, 2008). Because Byzantine archaeology has not traditionally emphasized the excavation and publication of middens, the zooarchaeological record offers much less evidence for Byzantine diets (Rautman, 1990;Nobis, 1993).…”