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Tahmina Comes into Rustam's Chamber, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi, c. 1410
Manuscript Folio
Iran, 15th century
Timurid period, AH 771-912/AD 1370-1506
Creation Place: Herat, Afghanistan
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
image: 20.8 x 10.5 cm (8 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Elise Cabot Forbes and Mr. Eric Schroeder and Annie S. Coburn Fund, 1939.225
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art