Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery
Explore artefacts made over a period of more than 1000 years in the heart of the Islamic world.
Galleries : 258 objects
Bahram Gur and the shepherd who hanged his dog
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Description
This scene, from the Haft Paykar (Seven Portraits), relates the encounter of Prince Bahram Gur with the shepherd who hung his dog for being disloyal. Expected to guide and protect the flock in his absence, the dog had in fact allowed a she-wolf to steal the sheep after mating with her.
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Details
- Series
- Quintet
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1480
- Artist/maker
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Nizami Ganjavi (1141 - 1209) (author)
- Material and technique
- ink, colour, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- closed 27.1 x 17.2 x 6.2 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI2067.1
Location
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- returned to owner
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