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This Persian miniature is attributed to the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene, <em>Sikandar Goes on a Pilgrimage to the Kaaba</em>, is part of the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
Iranian
Sikandar Goes on a Pilgrimage to the Kaaba, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
1455 – 1465
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf | paper
Museum Purchase
1963/1.65
A. R. Penck
Middle East Complexities, from the portfolio "Expedition to the Holyland"
1983
aquatint and engraving | Arches vellum paper
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1984/2.2.14
Anatolian
Mirror with scene of "Alexander's Ascension"
1100 – 1299
bronze |
Museum Purchase
1959/1.115

Qur’an manuscript leaf in Abbasid Kufic script
701 – 900
brown ink with touches of red | natural parchment
Gift of Professor Kamer Aga-Oglu for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1970/2.109
Khaled al-Saa'i
Qur'anic Verse
2002
ink | paper
Gift of the artist
2003/1.382
Yaacov Agam
18 Peace Stars
1979
lithograph | paper
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
2005/1.418

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