#cilicia

Historical Armenian clothing

Medieval Armenian Copper & Maya Obsidian Arrowhead.

Near East, Armenia, Medieval era, Cilician period, ca. 1198 to 1375 CE; Pre-Columbian, Maya (Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador), ca. 250 to 900 CE.

the Cilician-Armenian fictional cousin I made for Baldwin:

✨ Gabriyel ✨

He is the one who sends Lialusin Լիալուսին from Alexandretta, as a gift with blessings from Prince Rupen III 🤍 when Raymond’s regency is ending and Baldwin’s adult reign begins 👑 (why not as a coronation gift? Because during that time, Prince Mleh ruled, and he was sassy and hostileeee 💀) which makes Lia a very young little mare (she actually is far from little already tho!)

As soon as Lialusin gets to Jerry (Jerusalem, as nicknamed by Ridley 🤭) still as a filly, Abu starts training her with Baldwin in mind, first with voice commands as he trains her in alternative dressage, then once she can be ridden, he teaches her the riding style *a la gineta* with leg commands. (Having previously taught Baldwin to ride this way with the other horses before Lialusin; Saud and Prinsaut.)

Again, Gabriyel is a fictional distant cousin, an original character of mine. I named him that way in honor of Gabriyel of Melitene father of Morfia (though this does not necessarily mean he is from the Melitene line, the Armenian influence on Baldwin’s paternal line. May be thru Agnès’ influence/line too. I do not specify which bc I do not see it as necessary since he is not a major character and I like to leave it as “pending”, up to interpretation or preference of the reader. I did give him the placeholder surname of “of (house) Lampron” though. Might or might not give him a “regular” surname like Kachatryan.)

•I also spell it Gabriyel and not Gabriel bc: 1) I do not want people pronouncing all these names in their minds automatically with a misplaced English accent. 2) the way I saw around it was that the name is written in Armenian as Գաբրիել with the letter “Ե/ե” that is an E that is pronounced more like ‘Ye’. (A “normal” ‘E’ would be “Է/է”) and before that letter is an ‘i’ “ի”. Hence Gabriyel. 🇦🇲

Gabriyel has a sister whose hair is wheat brown and eyes are turquoise w hazel. Will include her in future doodles, w Gab and Baudi <3 Gab is a little older.

There is no record of cousins like these, on the off chance, these would not have been recorded—not in crusader chronicles certainly. Only princes and similar rank would be noted usually. Gives me creative liberty to do fun stuff like this (fun for me lol maybe everyone else is like ok idc) but that is another reason I do not specify a genealogical line for the moment. I feel bad choosing one and the other. Maybe in the future I realize a reason for why to choose one over the other. Morfia is my ancestor too so it will be the more likely choice 😅

Was about to chalk this one up as an imitation after not being able to find a match. Sent pics to RPC and they figured it out! A unique coin of a scarce ruler from a scarce city…

Roman Province - Cilicia

AE25 - 7.47g

Maximus as Caesar 236-238 AD

Selinus-Traianopolis Mint

Obverse ΓΑΙΟ ΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΟC

Bust of Maximus right, draped, cuirassed, from behind

Reverse ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟ CΕΛΙΝΟΥC (retrograde)

Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae

Lyrnessos (Troad): the Cilician city of Lyrnessos was located in the Troad, to the south-east of Mount Ida - according to legend, Achilles of Phthia made a great foray to the south of Mount Ida where he attacked twenty-four cities, including Lyrnessos.