Title: "Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Object type: Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE
Artist:  Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari 
Artist bio: Northern Mesopotamia 1136–1206 Northern Mesopotamia
Artist role: Author
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions: H. 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm)
W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1955
Geography: Attributed to    probably Syria or Iraq      
Department: Islamic Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Weapons