Illustration from the manuscript of the Romance of Varqa and Gulshah, c1250.

FIG. 5.-10, 12a: Une autre scène de la meme guerre; fond rouge; inscription: "La guerre des Banū Shaybah avec les Banū Dabya."
FIG. 5.-10, 12a: Another scene from the same war; red background; inscription: "The war of the Banū Shaybah with the Banū Dabya."

Battle between the Banu Zabba and the Banu Shayba.

Source: Plate 38 in M. GORELIK, "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. ROBERT ELGOOD, London 1979

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