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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
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.
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