New NaqqaliThe Completion of the Shahnameh
A closing emblem rather than a route map — the whole arc of the poem, perhaps the empire's full extent at its height with the great cities named, as a visual full stop under Ferdowsi's colophon.
A closing emblem rather than a route map — the whole arc of the poem, perhaps the empire's full extent at its height with the great cities named, as a visual full stop under Ferdowsi's colophon.