Umayyad Fresco of an Archer, Khirbat al Mafjar, near Jericho, Palestine, 8th century AD

Fig. 10a [reconstruction]

The fragment found in room 2 located in the southern wing of the eastern bloc bears a warrior wearing yellow armor and a helmet. He holds a bow and arrow in his hands. This warrior is about to release the arrow into the upper part of the scene, to a point which is no longer there because of the fragmentary condition of the fresco (fig. 10a). The warrior is the only clear feature in this scene.¹⁴

¹⁴ Grabar in his discussion of those figures writes: “These yellow bands may represent plate mail … at any rate as far as the piece on the thighs is concerned, (as seen) by a comparison with statues of Roman soldiers which show metal-plated skirts with similar fringes.” See Grabar, “The paintings,” p. 310. In his discussion of Umayyad arms and armor, David Nicolle referred to this archer: “The archer wears early Byzantine style armour and has a broad-brimmed helmet of a type not otherwise seen before the late 10th century. He also shoots ‘under his shield’ probably at a castle,” Nicolle and McBride, Armies of the Muslim conquest, p. 36.
p.259, "Reconstructing the frescoes of Khirbat al-Mafjar" by Tawfiq Da'adli, in JERUSALEM STUDIES IN ARABIC AND ISLAM 46 (2019)

Referenced as figure 127 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
127. Fresco from Khirbat al Mafjar, mid-8th century AD, Palestinian, Palestine Archaeological Museum, East Jerusalem (Ham).