'Alexander Fights a Sea Battle', Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597?98, Attributed to India, Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper, H. 9 3/4 in. (24. 8 cm), Codices, Dharmadas, In the episode illustrated, Alexander the Great has ordered the construction of a tall tower surmounted by a revolving mirror in order to battle the pirates menacing the Mediterranean Sea. The protagonists appear as contemporary Indians wearing turbans and tunics, rather than ancient Greeks, and one of the fighters uses a gun, an invention from nearly two millennia after Alexander?s time
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