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The forty wives and their secret paramours being punished by stoning to death, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night

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

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Mustaches are visible on several women in the pile, indicating that they are men in disguise.

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