King Khosrow sits before the chessboard, while his vizir and the envoy of Qannuj are playing chess. Shahnameh, 10th century CE.<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg/220px-A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="349" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg/330px-A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="390" data-file-height="618"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_treatise_on_chess_2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The same scene as depicted in the 14th century</div></div></div>
<p>Artist: 10th century Iranian Painter. Public Domain 2D work of art<br></p>
Photographer: unknown
2021-11-20
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