Image gallery for: Bahram gur arrives at the house of a merchant text page recto bahram gur slays a dragon verso from a shahnama book of kings of firdausi 940 1019 or 1025 known as the great mongol shahnama
In this intense painting, Bahram Gur plunges his sword into the breast of a dragon. A favorite character from Iran's pre-Islamic history, Bahram Gur (reigned 420–38) was a popular ruler of the