Stoning of woman

Sani ol Molk (and workshop)
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Golestan Palace Library
The Stoning of an Adulteress, illustration to a manuscript of 1001 Nights by Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari or his atelier. Tehran, 1853-1857. (Caption from Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. 231).

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