File:Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage mss-0771 CROP.jpg
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Summary
Object
| anonymous: 'Alexander Visits the Ka'bah', Folio from a Copy of Firdawsi's Shahnamah | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title |
'Alexander Visits the Ka'bah', Folio from a Copy of Firdawsi's 'Shahnamah' |
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| Object type | illuminated manuscript / painting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Folio from a Copy of Firdawsi’s Shahnamah showing Alexander visiting the Kaaba. Shiraz, Iran mid-16th century. Cropped to show Alexander and the Kaaba
العربية: الإسكندر الأكبر عند الكعبة، في ورقة من الشاهنامه ، شيراز ، منتصف القرن السادس عشر |
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| Depicted people | Alexander the Great | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Persian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 16th century | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
MSS 771 (Khalili Collection: Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage) |
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| Place of creation | Shiraz | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Photograph
| Description |
English: Alexander the Great praying at the Kaaba |
| Date | 7 November 2006, 03:29:14 |
| Source | Originally cropped from File:Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage mss-0771.jpg; replaced by higher resolution version cropped from File:Alexander the Great Visits the Ka‘bah, Folio from a Copy of Firdawsi’s Shahnamah - Google Art Project.jpg, with a small increase in contrast, using IrfanView |
| Author | Khalili Collections / Google Art Project |
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| current | 10:24, 14 June 2023 | 1,268 × 1,411 (517 KB) | MartinPoulter | Higher resolution version based on Google Art Project scan | |
| 11:38, 19 February 2021 | 836 × 937 (201 KB) | MartinPoulter | Uploaded a work by Scan by the Khalili Collections from Cropped from File:Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage mss-0771.jpg with UploadWizard |
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