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"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Author Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus)
1330s
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Faience-Cylinder Seals
- Dimensions
- Page: Ht. 22 13/16 in. (58 cm) W. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm) Mat: Ht. 24 in. (61 cm) W. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1933
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, 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
