Title

Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), ca. 1300-30.

Caption

Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse, Folio from a Shahnama..., ca. 1300-30. Creator: Unknown.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM20A69_176

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,1Mb (9,2Mb) / 12,9in x 16,5in / 3881 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

river animal water people male man men animals fish horses horse arts painting country metal writing monarch book guy museum geography color fishes surprise king royal death gold location century gesturing ink surprised kicking literature Iran Iranian royalty miniature concept shocked script killing hand gesture Kicked Colour aquatic life The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art poem poetry Persian Persia gold leaf 14th century Fourteenth Century Book of Kings geographical feature Mongol Sasanian Shah Shahnama Shahnameh Shah-nameh sovereign TGN trampling Mongols watercolour manuscript Unknown Farsi Ferdowsi Firdawsi Abu Ol-qasem Mansur Firdausi Firdaws¯i His Majesty Heritage Art Nasta'liq Nastaliq epic poem (Abu Ol-qasem Mansur) (Firdausi) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi