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"Rustam Slays the White Div", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus)
1560–80
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm) W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Rogers Fund and Joseph V. McMullan Gift, 1965
- 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
