Armoured Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine, early 8th century AD.
Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem.

Armoured Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine, early eighth century AD. Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem.

A larger image of the Armoured Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine, early 8th century AD. Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem.
Display No. 20. Photo by Alex Brey

Side View of Armoured Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine, early eighth century AD. Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem.

A larger side image of the Armoured Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine, early 8th century AD. Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum, Jerusalem.
Photo by Alex Brey

Referenced as Fig. 6 in "An introduction to arms and warfare in classical Islam" by David Nicolle in Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. Robert Elgood, London 1979
Fig. 6. Statue from Bath Porch, Khirbat al-Mafjar: Palestine, eighth century. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)
Lamella and mail were not unknown but the most valued armour of that era was a long mail hauberk known as the dir' (figs. 4-7). So valuable was a dir' that in the pre-Islamic period, tribes would carry out raids specifically to capture them.

Other Umayyad statues and fresco from Khirbat al-Mafjir, Palestine, early 8th century AD.
Other Illustrations of Arabian Costume and Soldiers
8th Century Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers