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"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)
Date: ca. 1530Accession Number: 1970.301.51
Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings
Date: ca. 1500–1100 B.C.Accession Number: 63.74
Sword and scabbard
Date: ca. 7th century A.D.Accession Number: 65.28a, b
Armlet
Date: first half 11th centuryAccession Number: 57.88a–c
Plaque: winged creatures approaching stylized trees
Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.Accession Number: 54.3.5 and 62.78.1a, b
"The Feast of Sada", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.2
Plaque with horned lion-griffins
Date: ca. 6th–4th century B.C.Accession Number: 54.3.2
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi (active 1340s)
Date: A.H. 741/A.D. 1340–41Accession Number: 19.68.1
Clasp with an eagle and its prey
Date: ca. A.D. 1st–2nd centuryAccession Number: 17.190.2055
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Date: dated A.H. 531/ A.D. 1137Accession Number: 1996.238.2
Date: ca. 1180Accession Number: 29.160.24
Date: ca. 1180Accession Number: 29.160.23
The Lovers
Painting by Riza-yi `Abbasi (ca. 1565–1635)
Date: dated A.H. 1039/ A.D. 1630Accession Number: 50.164
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Date: ca. 5th century B.C.Accession Number: 54.3.3
Cup with a frieze of gazelles
Date: ca. early 1st millennium B.C.Accession Number: 62.84
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