Rustam, depicted as a boy, kills a white elephant by beating it over the head with a bull-headed club. Iran . Old steel engraved antique print. Publis

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Rustam, depicted as a boy, kills a white elephant by beating it over the head with a bull-headed club. Iran . Old steel engraved antique print. Published in L'Univers La Perse, in 1841. History of the ancient Persian empire

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