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King Luhrasp Ascends the Throne: a Processon Arrives at Court (recto); the Story of King Luhrasp (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

Date: c. 1560–90
Medium: opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Culture: Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period (1501-1722)
Department: Islamic Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This scene of a procession arriving at court was surely completed by the court scene itself. The subject of the frontispiece had nothing to do with the text that it accompanied, and the text has not been identified.

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