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Rustam Takes Aim at Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings)
c. 1425–50
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Folio: 31.8 x 25.6 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.); Painting: 13.7 x 20.5 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Sultanate India, Deccan or Malwa
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The central warrior is Iran’s mythic hero Rustam, who approached an enemy army on foot, aiming to shoot the general off his mount. This page is from the oldest surviving illustrated Islamic manuscript made in India. The painting is by a local artist working for a Sultanate patron in India who admired Persian literature and emulated the erudite court culture of Iran.
