Image: Reconstruction of the Standard of the Sultan Saladin

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Description: Reconstruction of Saladin's personal standard, using a single headed eagle. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, carried a yellow banner emblazoned with an eagle, possibly inherited from the Zengid dynasty.[1] The Cairo Citadel has a carving of an eagle believed to depict Saladin's emblem, which is missing its heads. According to the Ottoman researcher Evilya Çelebi, it likely originally had two heads,[2] but the carving is commonly depicted with a single head, such as by the Egyptian government on stamps, and in the Lebanese book Saladin: The Story of the Conflict Between the East and West in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
Title: Reconstruction of the Standard of the Sultan Saladin
Credit: Own work
Author: Thespoondragon
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License: CC0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
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