- Finding aid title reads, "marked 'Samarra.' Arabic quotations dealing with place-names or the uses of certain words." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]
- Transcripts of inscriptions in Persian and Arabic language, found on architecture, potteries, as well as in monasteries around Samarra. Additional handwritten annotation in German.
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Miscellaneous Notes
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-4:5
FSA A.06 07.04.5
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.
- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Notes related primarly to the two campaigns of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin between the years 1911 and 1913.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.