English: This large wooden panel inscribed with Persian poetry was most probably made during the Timurid period (ca. 1370–1507) in Iran. It features six verses of a ghazal, or lyrical poem, written by the Persian poet Hafiz (1325–90). Intricately carved, large-scale wooden panels such as this one would have served as wall fixtures, forming a calligraphic frieze that may have hung around a room. The text on this panel, which occupies its full surface, is written in the cursive thuluth script often used for monumental inscriptions. The panel is truncated on the left, indicating that the text would have continued on an adjoining fragment.