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In order to falsely implicate her husband, Hamnaz places a knife by his side and lets the blood dripping from her nose stain his clothes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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A burglar who had broken into Hamnaz’s home is the first to reveal her secret affair.

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