Contemporary descriptions of the zupin are usually translated as '2-bladed' or '2-pronged', that could be a pitch-fork, or a spearhead with a waist as preferred by David Nicolle, or a spear with a head at each end as in a Daylami Tribesman by Ian Heath in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066
Possibilities include:
Detail of top, Morgan Casket, Southern Italy, 11th-12th century
Detail of front, Morgan Casket, Southern Italy, 11th-12th century
Rear of ivory casket, Fatimid Sicily or Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries. Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
See a summary of the written sources for Dailamis
Daylami Infantryman, early 11th century by Angus McBride is based on:
. 10th century plate excavated at Nishapur, Museum of Oriental Art, no. 2629/3258, Rome (anyone have a better picture?)
. 'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-tabita) by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar al-Sufi, 1009-10AD (Bodleian Library, Oxford, manuscript Marsh 144)
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Daylami Tribesman by Ian Heath in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066
Morgan Casket, Southern Italy, 11th-12th century
Rear of ivory casket, Fatimid Sicily or Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries. Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Daylami Infantryman, early 11th century by Angus McBride
10th century plate excavated at Nishapur, Museum of Oriental Art, no. 2629/3258, Rome
'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-tabita) by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar al-Sufi, 1009-10AD (Bodleian Library, Oxford, manuscript Marsh 144)
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11th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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