Detail of Rustam Falls Asleep

Jalayrid Illustration from a late 14th Century Shahnama

Image source: Sharukhan Market
From the Sarai Albums. Hazine 2153, folio 100b, Topkapi Sarai Museum.

Rustam Falling Asleep at the Fifth Stage (fig. 24).

One day Rustam gets bored and goes hunting on his horse, Rakhsh, towards the frontier of Turan. He reaches a plain where zebras are grazing; he kills one and cooks it on the fire. After the heavy meal he falls asleep while his horse grazes.
Rustam is asleep on his back in the right foreground using his saddle as a pillow. Over his gold coat of mail he wears a coat of tigerskin. Around him lie his quiver, bow and mace.
Source: "Four Istanbul Albums and Some Fragments from Fourteenth-Century Shah-Namehs" by Nurhan Atasoy, pp. 19-48 in Ars orientalis; the arts of Islam and the East Vol. 8 (1970)

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