Sunday, August 27, 2023

Bashi-bazouks before a Gateway by Paul Joanowits

 


Bashi-bazouks were irregulars in the Ottoman army and hailed from lands across the Ottoman empire, from Egypt to the Balkans. The two soldiers converse in an Egyptian setting, the gate topped by Mamluk carvings and flanked by East African ‘Grandees’ chairs’, amalgams of Mamluk, Portuguese, and Indian influence.

6 comments:

  1. fags in skirts. Comparing their goat love objects

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  2. Looks like he is sitting on a giant comode.

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  3. Locked and loaded...

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  4. And here I thought good old Captain Haddock was just spouting nonsense. ;-)
    - macxcool

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  5. The length of the barrel on those rifles - seems like the compressed air would slow the bullet? And the butt piece on the stock seems to curve in the wrong direction? And a little inconvenient to get the ramrod down the barrel?

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  6. criminals that fight for the right to plunder enemy ports

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