Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar)

Item

Title

Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar)

Description

A highly decorated miniature which depicts a procession from the circumcision ceremony of Akbar's sons. Akbar can be seen seated in the center as gold is distributed to the capital's poor as dancers in Chaghatai Turkish dress dance around him. The miniature is part of his biography written much later towards his death in 1605, while the ceremony depicted occurred in 1573.

Creator

Dharam Das

Temporal Coverage

22.9 x 12.1 cm (9 x 4 3/4 in.); Sheet with border: 34.7 x 22.5 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Spatial Coverage

1602-1603

Type

Painting: gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Date Created

Unknown

Source

Cincinnati Art Museum

Contributor

Austin George

Rights

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Item sets

Encountering the Middle East Fall '22

Site pages

Catalogue Entry: Procession of coffee sellers with a model of the coffeehouse
ALTERNATE VIEWS Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)