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Man in robe in The Painted Wooden Ceiling of the Palatine Chapel
Cappella Palatina
Palermo, Sicily
A beardless figure, with feminine side locks, but definitely a man. However, the diwan (chancery) of the Norman Sicilian court was staffed with eunuchs, who had allegedly disavowed Islam for Christianity but were practicing Islam secretly. One of them, Philip of Mahdia, rose to the high post of admiral before being tried and executed for apostasy.