What is the size of the painting? How long, how wide?
It might be a wayang beber scroll. Wayang beber is just about dead these days, but it actually pre-dates wayang kulit. The dalang tells the story while the scroll is unrolled. I seem to recall that the stories are from East Javanese legends.
A few years ago there were still painters in Solo who could produce wayang beber scrolls, and they would do short versions for use as wall decorations. I heard about a dalang from south of Solo --- maybe Pacitan --- who still gave performances
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