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Unknown Maker, Persian

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Zulayka,

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Persian

Title

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Zulayka

Medium

gold, ink, watercolor

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • watercolor,
  • and gold on paper

Techniques

  • ink,
  • watercolor,
  • and gold on paper

Supports

  • paper mounted as an album page

Dimensions

18.7 x 10.8 cm (7 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed number in ink on label adhered verso, top right: 378

Inscription Text/Poem: The poem in upper side of the folio in Persian:
پی باز آمدن دامن کشیدش
ز سوی پشت پیراهن دریدش
برون رفت از کف آن غم رسیده
بسان غنجه پیراهن دریده
زلیخا زان غرامت سینه زد چاک
جو سایه خویش را افکند بر خاک

Translation: She pulled his skirt for him to return
She tore the back side of his shirt
He pulled away from the hand of that sad driven person
like a torn bud
Zulikha beat her chest at her loss
She dropped herself like a shadow on the soil

(translated by Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, PhD student, Brown University, 2023)

Place

Origin: Iran; Origin: Central Asia

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

17.497

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Zulayka
Leaf from the book Yousof Va Zoleykha
(یوسف و زلیخا)
by Poet Jaami (جامی)

Inscribed number in ink on label adhered verso, top right: 378

Inscription Text/Poem: The poem in upper side of the folio in Persian:
پی باز آمدن دامن کشیدش
ز سوی پشت پیراهن دریدش
برون رفت از کف آن غم رسیده
بسان غنجه پیراهن دریده
زلیخا زان غرامت سینه زد چاک
جو سایه خویش را افکند بر خاک

Translation: She pulled his skirt for him to return
She tore the back side of his shirt
He pulled away from the hand of that sad driven person
like a torn bud
Zulikha beat her chest at her loss
She dropped herself like a shadow on the soil

(translated by Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, PhD student, Brown University, 2023)

Origin: Iran; Origin: Central Asia

Exhibition History

Text, Paratext, and Images

September 1, 2020 - July 24, 2021
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Zulayka with the accession number of 17.497. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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