DescriptionImage of two standing soldiers, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, inv. no. 13703.jpg
English: Image of two standing soldiers, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, inv. no. 13703
"A meticulously executed drawing of two warriors in Cairo, which has been reproduced countless times and cited as evidence for Fatimid costume and weaponry, bears a truncated inscription, ʿizz wa-iqbāl li'l-qā’id Abī Manṣ[ūr] (Power and good fortune to the commander Abu Mansur), presumably referring to a specific individual of the early eleventh century"
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Image of two standing soldiers, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, inv. no. 13703