The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Rakhsh Kills a Lion while Rustam is Asleep", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Date

ca. 1300–30

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Text block: H. 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm) W. 4 13/16 in. 12.3 cm) Painting: H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm) W. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Northwestern Iran or Baghdad

Object number

69.74.9

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1969

The Met object ID 452049. 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.