The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Nushirvan Receives Mihras, Envoy of Caesar", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Date

ca. 1300–30

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting with Textblock: H. 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm) W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm) Page: H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) W. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran or Iraq

Object number

34.24.3

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934

The Met object ID 449002. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.