Extensive textual and pictorial sources also show that poppy cultivation and opium consumption were widespread in Safavid Iran and Moghol India.

The nagamaki is considered to be evolved from the extremely long nodachi or ōdachi swords that are described in fourteenth century literature and pictorial sources.

Shields, skoutaria, were usually of the long "kite" shape, though round shields are still shown in pictorial sources.

There are no Byzantine pictorial sources depicting horse armour dating from the Komnenian period.

Picasso falters only when his colossal talent is hampered by the inadequate instruction of his teachers or by the limitation of his pictorial sources.

One student teacher, carrying out a project on food, had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources.

Depictions of dimachaeri and their equipment vary in pictorial sources, so it is difficult to say exactly how, and how uniformly, they were equipped.

Some pictorial sources depict dimachaeri wearing extremely minimal armor such as a balteus and leather wrappings or none at all, save a subligaculum (loin cloth).

He carefully captures the essence of the original pictorial source.

Very little evidence of this oral tradition has survived, and modern knowledge of Egyptian myths is drawn from written and pictorial sources.