Rustam Kills The White Div Rug

Illustrated leaf from a manuscript of firdausi s shahnama mughal late 16th century note.

Rustam kills the white div rug.

He rustam s seventh course. He kills the white dîv the new york public library digital collections. Walters art museum 1931 by bequest. Ink opaque watercolor silver and gold on paper.

He kills the white div folio 124 from a shah nama book of kings of firdausi persian about 934 1020 cleveland. Iskandar kills the abyssinian monster. Rustam kills the white div devil the great sages mourn the death of iskandar. Nearby is rustam s horse.

Rustam standing with dagger armoured slays the white div white demon depicted with tail and bestial features. Attributed to northwestern iran or baghdad. He possesses great physical strength and is skilled in sorcery and necromancy he destroys the army of kay kavus by conjuring a dark storm of hail boulders and tree trunks using his magical skills. The mobads question hurmuzd and receive answers.

In the persian epic of shahnameh div e sepid persian. While the mughal prvenance is obvious i have to note the cave the blue bacground rocks and the gold sky with the two tone cloud swirls. The artist was obviously drawing on a shiraz inspiration. Rustam slaying the white div outside a cave.

رستم is a legendary hero in persian mythology the son of zāl and rudaba whose life and work was immortalized by the 10th century persian poet ferdowsi in the shahnameh or epic of kings which contains pre islamic iranian folklore and history. Scene from the shahnameh. In the shahnameh rostam and his. Rustam kills the white div folio from a shahnama book of kings author.

Provenance henry walters baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown. White demon is the chieftain of the divs demons of mazandaran he is a huge being. The legendary hero rustam identified by his tiger skin clothing kills the savage chief of the demons the white div in an immense cave as other demons watch from above. Completing this last of seven trials rustam uses the white div s blood to cure the iranian king kay kavus of his blindness.

Sam goes to fight mihrab. Abu l qasim firdausi iranian 935 1020 date. However the roots of the narrative date much earlier to the seventh century. Description on this folio from walters manuscript w 602 rustam kills the white div the seventh feat.