This illustration is one of twenty-one in the eighteenth-century manuscript Yusuf and Zulaykha, (Joseph and Potiphar's wife). The volume was transcribed by Jami, a fifteenth-century Persian mystic and scholar. In this scene, Joseph sits by the Pharoah's side in fron of his brothers, who, during the time of famine, have traveled to Egypt in search of food.

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