India: Siyavash faces Afrasiyab across the Jihun (Ceyhan) River in Turkey, Shahnameh, ink and opaque watercolour on paper, Master of the Jainesque Shahnama, Sultanate of Delhi, 1450

Siyavash is a major figure in Ferdowsi's epic, the Shahnameh (or Shahnama).

He was a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest days of the Iranian Empire. A handsome and desirable young man, his name literally means 'the one with the black horse' or 'black stallion.

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