Garrett Zafarnama: Battle on the River Oxus is a late 15th-century painting executed in opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The composition is organized as a double-page illustration featuring two distinct but continuous scenes of mounted and foot soldiers engaged in combat. Warriors in brightly colored garments and patterned armor fill the foreground, with horses in dynamic poses and figures wielding bows, swords, and shields.

In the background, tents and rocky outcrops establish the setting as a military encampment near a river, while smaller groups of figures are shown in boats or on the riverbank. This work belongs to the tradition of Persian manuscript illustration and was produced in the Timurid period in the late fifteenth century. The painting comes from the Garrett Zafarnama, a copy of Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi's Zafarnama (Book of Victories), the history of Timur, made for the Timurid sultan Husayn Mirza and now in the Johns Hopkins University Library in Baltimore. Miniatures of this type were typically created for royal patrons and reflect the sophisticated narrative and decorative conventions of Timurid court art.

The artwork’s detailed depiction of costume, armor, and battle organization is characteristic of Persian manuscript painting from this era.