Bahram Chubina's night attack on the camp of Khusrau Parviz, c.1330-40, showing Ilkanid Mongol Soldiers. Schulz Shahnamah, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974.290.42.

Illustrations from the Shahnama of Firdausi showing Ilkanid Mongol soldiers
Bahram Chubina's night attack on the camp of Khusrau Parviz
from the Schulz-Gutman Shahnama of 1330-40 held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The figures wear contemporary dress or dress of no latter than the date of the illustration.
The actions portray the Sassanid/Sassanian period.

Bahram Chubina's night attack on the camp of Khusrau Parviz, Shahnama, c.1335. Schulz Shahnamah, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974.290.42.

A larger image of Bahram Chubina's night attack on the camp of Khusrau Parviz, Shahnama, c.1330-40

Date: ca. 1330-40
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Probably Mongol-ruled central Iraq, early 14th century (Schulz Shahnamah, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA).
School: Isfahan.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Accession Number: 1974.290.42

Referenced as figure 124 in: M. GORELIK, "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. ROBERT ELGOOD, London 1979
123-124. Shāh-Nāmeh by Ferdawsī, Shiraz or Tabriz, c.1320.

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