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Every soldier’s planted boot meets the coastal road; closed hands remain around spear shafts or load straps. The mule bears weight through three road-contacting hooves while one forehoof lifts in an eastward walking gait. The rolled tent and saddlebags rest on the padded saddle; crossed straps wrap the mule’s barrel and hold both loads against gravity. Each transport hull sits to its waterline; mast and yard carry the sail, taut sheets run to stern cleats, and wakes trail north. Broken ship reflections remain directly below their hulls; the capital’s reflection aligns beneath the opposite shoreline. The distant column follows the same curving road ahead of the five soldiers. Foreground soldiers are 1.65–1.8 m tall, the mule is 1.4 m at the shoulder, and each visible transport is about 25 m long. It is 15 August 718: Early eighth-century Umayyad wool and linen tunics, trousers, travel-stained cloaks, wrapped headcloths, leather boots, and occasional simple conical helmets.; Timber hulls and spars, woven sails, wool and linen clothing, leather pack tack, iron spearheads, earth road, and masonry sea walls.; Lateen-rigged transports with working sheets and cleats, early medieval pack saddles, spears, straight swords, and composite bows in cases.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Exhausted retreat under disciplined movement.. 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