"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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Men, Horses, Funerals
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horse, man, funeral, Esfandiyār

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Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1933
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CC0-1.0
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metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 448938 (read 2026-08-27)
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"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
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Made in the fourteenth century, like "The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings).

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