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The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night

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

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The structure in the background, called a cenotaph, marks the tomb of a Sufi holy man.

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