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Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Names:
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Collection Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Extent:
1 Notebook (16.8 cm. x 10.4 cm.)
Container:
Volume S-4
Type:
Archival materials
Notebooks
Place:
Asia
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra
Date:
1910-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original information in German reads, " Samarra. Vergleich von in den abgepackten und abgelieferten Kisten enthaltenen Inventarnummern." Translated information in english reads, "Samarra. Revised inventory of packaged items and shipped cases."
- Finding aid title reads, "Another list of cases with Inventory numbers." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]
- Additional information from staff reads, "IN-874 (2/9, p.1)."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Detailed List of Cases Containing Small Finds, mostly Fragments of Ceramics
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-4:8 FSA A.06 07.04.8
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.
Topic:
Abbasids  Search this
Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Art of the Islamic World  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
History  Search this
Genre/Form:
Notebooks
Collection Citation:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.
Identifier:
FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 07.04.8
See more items in:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / FSA A.06 07.04.1: S-4: Scrapbook
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3dc7fd99e-71ad-4412-838f-9d939d740004
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10444