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Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar

(reigned 1556–1605)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 11.2 x 10.1 cm (4 7/16 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.174.b
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The artist shows the mouth of the pit at the top and in cross-section below.

Description

Maimuna clings to a branch in a dark pit while her villainous husband watches from above. He threw her into the pit in an attempt to steal her possessions. However, because Maimuna was guiltless, luck and fate saved her from an untimely death.
A book page features bands of Persian script above and below a painting depicting a woman with light skin tone at the bottom of a black pit, clinging to a branch and surrounded by pale orange, green, and purple rocks. Above a man with light skin tone looks down into the pit. The background behind the rocks is solid gold, with what look like tents sticking up on our left.

Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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