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Bijan killing the wild boars of Irman, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) (verso)

Cleveland Museum of Art

This image depicts a man on horseback spearing a boar. The man wears a red tunic with gold accents and a patterned cloth wrapped around his waist. He rides a brown and white horse. The boar is black. The man and the animals are set within an illustration bordered by nine columns of black text on a gold background. The artwork sits on a brown background with darker edges. The brown background is rectangular and has a thin green border. Strips of tape hold the artwork in place on the brown background. The brown background sits on a beige background.

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