Shahnamah
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Shahnamah
- Description:
- The Funeral of Iskandar
- Author:
- Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
- Copyist:
- Unknown
- Language:
- Persian
- Medium:
- Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
- Location:
- Iran, probably Isfahan
- Dimensions:
- Folio: H. 20.5 cm; W. 13.3 cm
- Date:
- ca. 1330–40
- Inventory Number:
- 1974.290.34
- Lender:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic Art
- Credit:
- Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974
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