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The four destitute friends go to a wise man who gives each one of them a magic shell to be placed on top of the turban, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

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

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This story takes place in Balkh, a city in northern Afghanistan.

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