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Rustam in the fortress near Mount Siband (a page from the Shahnameh manuscript)
(رستم في الحصن قرب جبل سيباندصفحة من مخطوطة الشهنامة )

Title	Rustam in the fortress near Mount Siband (a page from the Shahnameh manuscript)
Title Original	رستم في الحصن قرب جبل سيباندصفحة من مخطوطة الشهنامة
Author	unknown
Author Original	مجهول
Publication Date:	The second half of the fifteenth century AD
Publication Place	Shiraz, Iran (?) - Khninko Museum
Subject	Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Shiraz School
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 23.8 سم ، العرض : 14.2 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	451 ГРВ
Record ID	object;EPM;uc;Mus21;9;ar
Library Location	Khninko Museum
Date	The second half of the fifteenth century AD
Notes	A page from the Shahnameh manuscript (Book of Kings), which contains an epic poem by the poet Ferdowsi in which he tells the story of Rustam’s military campaign to Mount Siband to destroy the impregnable fortress of the city. The drawing shows the moment when Rustam and his army arrived approaching the walls of the fortress. The fighters resorted to deception and pretended to be salt merchants, and the guards of the fortress thought they were merchants and opened the gates for them. According to the content of the story, Rustam is depicted as a merchant without embodying his characteristics as a hero: the tiger skin and the helmet. And weapons. The shapes of people wearing rags and the type of cover they put on their heads and clouds in the Chinese style express the painter’s commitment to the Shiraz school of miniatures.
Sample Text	“Rustam in the fortress near Mount Siband (a page from the Shahnameh manuscript)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;9;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK
Seçili bibliyografya	Grube, E., "The Miniatures of Shiraz",The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 21 (1963): 285-95.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.
Atölye	Shiraz school (?)

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Rustam in the fortress near Mount Siband (a page from the Shahnameh manuscript)

(رستم في الحصن قرب جبل سيباندصفحة من مخطوطة الشهنامة )

Author unknown

Author Original مجهول

Publication Date The second half of the fifteenth century AD

Publication Place Shiraz, Iran (?) - Khninko Museum

Subject Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper — Shiraz School

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 23.8 سم ، العرض : 14.2 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 451 ГРВ

Record ID object;EPM;uc;Mus21;9;ar

Library Location Khninko Museum

Date The second half of the fifteenth century AD

Notes A page from the Shahnameh manuscript (Book of Kings), which contains an epic poem by the poet Ferdowsi in which he tells the story of Rustam’s military campaign to Mount Siband to destroy the impregnable fortress of the city. The drawing shows the moment when Rustam and his army arrived approaching the walls of the fortress. The fighters resorted to deception and pretended to be salt merchants, and the guards of the fortress thought they were merchants and opened the gates for them. According to the content of the story, Rustam is depicted as a merchant without embodying his characteristics as a hero: the tiger skin and the helmet. And weapons. The shapes of people wearing rags and the type of cover they put on their heads and clouds in the Chinese style express the painter’s commitment to the Shiraz school of miniatures.

Sample Text “Rustam in the fortress near Mount Siband (a page from the Shahnameh manuscript)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;9;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK

Seçili bibliyografya Grube, E., "The Miniatures of Shiraz",The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 21 (1963): 285-95.Rudyk, H. (ed),Charisma of Iran. Persian art of 12th–19th centuries from museum collections of Ukraine, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2017.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.

Atölye Shiraz school (?)