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"Rustam Shoots His Half-brother Shaghad through a Plane Tree", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
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"Rustam Shoots His Half-brother Shaghad through a Plane Tree", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 887 AH/1482 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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Credit line"Rustam Shoots His Half-brother Shaghad through a Plane Tree", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi. dated 887 AH/1482 CE. Abu'l Qasim Firdausi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940. CC0.
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