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The queen of Rum watches the peahen prefer to burn rather than abandon her eggs while the peacock flees the nest, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night

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

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Rum is the Arabic name of Rome and once designated the Byzantine Empire.

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