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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)
c. 1560-90
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: 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 Created: c. 1560-90
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 47 x 29.7 cm (18 1/2 x 11 11/16 in.); Image: 43.9 x 26.6 cm (17 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Type: Manuscript
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.24
- Medium: opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
- Inscriptions: Script: Nasta'liq
- Department: Islamic Art
- Culture: Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period (1501-1722)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Accession Number: 1962.24
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