Frescos in the main hall of the Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan

Chehel Sutun, Chihil Sutun, Cehel Sotun, Čehel Sotūn

Shah Abbas II receives Nader Mohammad Khan Shah ʿAbbās II with the Uzbek ambassador	Battle of Chaldiran Shah Esmāʿīl’s triumph over the Janissary aga at the battle of Čālderān	Shah Tahmasp receiving the exiled Emperor Humayun Shah Ṭahmāsb I (930-84/1524-76) receiving Homāyūn from India
Shah Abbas I receiving Vali Nadr Muhammad Khan Shah ʿAbbās I with Walī Moḥammad Khan, Uzbek ruler of Turkistan	Nadir Shah Defeats Moghuls at the Battle of Karnal Nāder Shah’s victory over the Mughal emperor Moḥammad of India (1152H/1739AD)	Battle of Taher-Abad The victory of Esmāʿīl I (907-30/1501-24) over the Uzbek Šaybānī Khan

photos by youngrobv

The niches in the centre of the eastern and western walls are completely filled with two battle scenes painted in the Qajar period (18th century).
The other four scenes were added earlier, some twenty years after the completion of the building in 1647.