Here, comprising the overall shape of a camel, are found images of demons, dervishes, embracing couples, rabbits, dragons, and even a Buddhist monk...The meaning of such images is open to interpretation…
-Metropolitan Museum, New York, Accession 25.83.6
Most striking to me in this Persian miniature is the look of wonder on the face of the Attendant, perhaps a Khabīr like KhairAllah who sees the jumble of everything and everybody the camel is packing and asks himself, Forty Days of this?
Composite Camel with Attendant, 16th C, Iran