The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Date

ca. 1300–30

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting: H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm) W. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm) Page: H. 14 in. (35.6 cm) W. 10 13/16 in. (27.5 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

Northwestern Iran or Baghdad

Object number

57.51.33

Credit line

Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956

The Met object ID 451412. 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.