Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art (1912)
Whishaw, Bernhard, Whishaw, Allen Mary · London : Smith · leaf 246
ollowers, received occasional trophiesof victory consisting of their enemies skulls preserved incamphor. Such offerings were continually made to victoriousprinces. Thus the camphorated head of Abdalaziz waspresented, in the presence of his father Musa, to the KhahfSuleiman, early in the eighth… … Fig. 9.—Fragment of the funeral robe of Fernando III. (d. 1252) pre-served in the AichaeoJogical Museum of Madrid, with lions andnasties similar to the Shields in the Alcazar of Seville. A robe ofthis design is depicted as worn by Alfonso X. in his Booh of Chess. I THE ABBADITES AT HOME 207…
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