Tahmuras Defeats the Divs

طهمورث يقهر الديفات

"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1970.301.3.

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A page from the Shahnameh of Tahmasp: Tahmuras defeats the demons; about 1525. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

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