A fragment of monumental Ashura mourning hanging panel, with an inscribed weave in cream-colored silk over a dark red ground. Embellished with eight-point stars enclosing two names of Allah ‘diyan and Hiaan’ in thuluth script, interspersed with foliage containing an inscription in nasta’liq script of ‘the oppressed Imam Hussein’. The outer border with cartouches enclosing a Persian inscription in mirror image, Poems in praise of Imam Hussein ‘Sun of heaven and The land of Righteous’