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"Funeral Procession", Folio 35r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar|Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi
- Date
- dated A.H. 892/ 1487 CE
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm) W. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm) Page: H. 13 in. (33 cm) W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 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
- present-day Afghanistan
- Object number
- 63.210.35
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1963
Artist information
Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur|Iranian, Mashhad 1453–1520 Mashhad
Subjects and terms
- Men
- Funerals
- Working
The Met object ID 451730. 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.