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The Freer Canteen
Lancer and two mounted crossbowmen on the base.
Photograph 15a. Details of horsemen in combat on an oversized, inlaid brass flask known as the Freer Canteen, probably Mosul, early thirteenth century (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, inv. no. 41.10).
Source: p.85, "The Iconography of a Military Elite: Military Figures on an Early Thirteenth-Century Candlestick" by David Nicolle, in Mamlūk Studies Review, 2014-2015
