09-02-2017, 06:56 AM
Anonymous Venetian orientalist painting, The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus', 1511
![[Image: Ambassadors-in-Damascus.jpg]](http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/Ambassadors-in-Damascus.jpg)
I think some of the minarets are contemporary, but no merlons of the type I was pointing out though, at least in this painting
![[Image: Ambassadors-in-Damascus.jpg]](http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/Ambassadors-in-Damascus.jpg)
I think some of the minarets are contemporary, but no merlons of the type I was pointing out though, at least in this painting

