Suppliants

p 115, line, Roberts, 53 x 104 mm

Signature, 'Roberts', brc. Two naked men, one bowing low, one kneeling, arms out - before seated man.

p 103 [tr ed p 124] - 'Feisal would sit down at the end of the tent facing the open side, and we with our backs against the wall, in a semicircle out from him. The slaves brought up the rear, and clustered round the open wall of the tent to control the besetting suppliants who lay on the sand in the tent-mouth, or beyond, waiting their turn.'

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