The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East.
Roc (mythology)
Illustration by René Bull
Ath-kanda Lihiniya illustration by Prasanna Weerakkody, Colombo 2019
The merchants break the roc's egg, Le Magasin pitoresque, Paris, 1865
Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate. In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.
Sinbad the Sailor: "Having balanced my cargo exactly..." Drawing by Milo Winter (1914)
South Indian Sindbad-namah, 16th Century
Sindbad the Sailor and the Valley of the Diamonds, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Sinbad's third voyage. Encounter with a man-eating giant, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford