Two haloed prophets kneel in conversation on a dark hillside

Two robed men kneel face to face on dark rocky ground, each haloed by a gold flame nimbus marking him as a prophet. An older bearded man in an orange coat over green holds one hand to his chest; a younger man in a blue robe with a gold-and-pink sash gestures with an open hand. Red lily-like flowers grow between them. A white horse and a reddish-brown horse stand tethered nearby, and riders crest the dark hill behind under a blue sky with gold-edged clouds.

The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, is the Persian national epic: a verse history of Iran from its first kings to the Arab conquest, completed around 1010 by the poet Firdausi of Tus (c. 940–1020). Its illustrations were painted in later centuries for the rulers and patrons who commissioned copies. Illustrated manuscripts survive from the Ilkhanid period onward, from the First Small Shahnama of the early fourteenth century to Shah Tahmasp's great copy made in Tabriz, and later volumes from Qazvin, Herat and Bijapur in the Deccan. Leaves from these dispersed manuscripts are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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