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Rustam lifts Afrasiyab by the belt. By Muhammad Sadiq (National Library of Russia PNS 383)

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Rustam fights Afrasiyab

Scene Title:Rustam lifts Afrasiyab by the belt

Folio number: 010v

Painter:Muhammad Sadiq

Notes: The painting depicts Rustam in his traditional dress with the cow headed mace on his waist, who is holding another man in lilac coat and orange trousers over his head. There is no doubt about the characters involved, as their names as well as the signature of the painter Muhammad Sadiq are mentioned on the miniature, as well as the date, 1120/1705. The triple wide frame consisting of different kinds of ornaments is of floral decoration with birds and butterflies, sitting on the blossoming on blossoming cherries, hyacinths, tulips. The foreground is white. (F.A.). Reproduced in O. Vasilyeva and O. Yastrebova, Firdausi's "Shahnama". Timeless work of genius (St. Petersburg, 2015), p.91, fig. 33, where it is identified as fol. 20.

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Mohl 11, Kay Qubad (100 years), first line: None, break line before: None, break line after: None, last line: None.

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