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Photograph of rising sun, with superimposed Urdu caption.

Part of an image from https://javedch.com/, a Pakistan news website.

Image of the Prussian thunder-god, Perkūns, as depicted on the Flag of Widewuto by Caspar Hennenberger (1529 – 1600).

Part of a public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.

Street scene in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Private collection, ©2008 Clare Coleman.

The Kashkan Bridge, Iran, from the Tehran Times.

Part of an image creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.


A jar of clarified butter, with the label "Iron Tsarv" in cyrillic letters.

Part of an image from a Russian bakery website, www.ozon.ru.
A long, high, barbed-wire fence near the border between Iran and Pakistan. Behind the fence is a range of low mountains. In front of the fence, in the foreground, are two green road signs, with text in Persian and Roman letters. The lower sign, pointing left, reads "Zahedan". The upper sign, pointing right, reads "Pakestan Bor.", short for "Border". The Persian text begins with the word "marz", in Arabic letters, which is Persian for "border".
 Fence and road sign near to the border between Iran and Pakistan.

Part of an image from the Persian language version of alarabiya.net, a Saudi broadcaster.

Traditional spinning of wool in central Asia.

Part of an image supplied by an Iranian carpet retailer (broken link or site now inactive). "why-wool-1-871146358.jpeg"

Clock tower of the Gazi Huzrev-beg mosque, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Private collection, ©2008 Clare Coleman.
Picture of gold bangles and other gold jewellery, with the Hindi word "Kanak", meaning gold, in the foreground.
 Gold bangles and other gold jewellery.

Part of an image from a Hindi language education site about synonyms of "kanak", gold.

Cover of a book in Hindi entitled Vir Hanuman, "Lord Hanuman", the monkey-god.

Resized from https://www.exoticindia.com/book/details/veer-hanuman-mzd780/
Photograph of an elderly woman, with a poem in Persian script honoring and expressing love for the author's mother. The heading, in large Persian script, says "modar", meaning mother.
 Photograph of an elderly woman, with heading in large Persian script that says "modar", meaning mother.

Cropped from an image found by Iranian search engine https://khabarsearch.ir/
Picture of a kirpan (Punjabi ਕਿਰਪਾਨ) worn by a Sikh person
 Picture of a kirpan (Punjabi ਕਿਰਪਾਨ) worn by a Sikh person.

Cropped from Wikimedia Commons, licenced by Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Two sornas standing upright on a pedestal. The caption, in Persian, means "sorna instruments at Lorestan Falak Museum"
 Two sornas on display at Lorestan Falak Museum, Iran.

Partial screenshot from the website of the Sorna Music Academy, Karaj, Iran.

Sarmatian Kurgan (burial mound)

Cropped from public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.