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Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Names:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Collection Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Extent:
1 Volume (Sketchbook (47 pages), 12.8 cm. x 25.7 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Volumes
Sketchbooks
Drawings
Sketches
Place:
Asia
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra
Date:
1911-1913
Scope and Contents:
- The third of a series of eighteen sketchbooks (Skizzenbücher), in which Ernst Herzfeld recorded his observations on topography, landscape, archaeological remains, architecture, artifacts and decorative motifs, related to the congregational mosques in Samarra, Mutawakkiliyya, and Balkuwārā (Manqūr); the Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya; the palaces of Balkuwārā, Ṣūr ʿĪṣā, and the Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; the residential architecture and the baths; and finally the pre-Islamic cemetery located at Shabbat al-Hawā (Parthian cemetery, Shabbat al-Hawīy).
- The identification of the residential sites: "Herzfeld numbered all sites while the excavation was still in progress. When it became obvious that two courtyards with adjacent rooms turned out to belong to the same complex, however, he assigned new numbers. Herzfeld gave numbers to 16 houses in various locations, splitting certain buildings into, for instance, House Va or XIb, naming in all 24 different sites. [...]. Unfortunately, Herzfeld changed the numbering of the houses a third time when he finished the final drawings for the publication, including only 14 houses. [...]. In those cases in which Herzfeld noted on his field sketch either the name of the area or the new numbering of the house we can at least identify the site. These records indicate al-Quraina (Qurainah) as the location of Houses I-VI, connect al-Qāṭūn with House XI, the area of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā with Houses VIII and IX, and a House XVII with Jubairiyya." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003; p.121."]
- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra 3; Funde."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 and 2 reads, "IN-319: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-319: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-320: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-321: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-322: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-323: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-324: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-327: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-329: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 3 and 4 reads, "IN-330: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-331: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-332: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-333: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-334: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-336: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-337: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-338: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-338: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 5 and 6 reads, "IN-339: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-340: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-341: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-342: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-343: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-344: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-345: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-346: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 7 and 8 reads, "IN-347: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-348: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-351: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-352: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-349: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-350: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-353: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 9 and 10 reads, "IN-354: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-355: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-356: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-358: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-357: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-358: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "IN-361: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-362: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-363: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-365: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-364: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-366: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-366: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-366: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-368: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-368: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "IN-370: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-371: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-372: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-373: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-374: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-375: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "IN-376: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-377: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-378: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-381: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-382: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-383: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-380: [Shabbat al-Hawā]; IN-384: [Shabbat al-Hawā]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "IN-385: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-386: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-388: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-392: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-390: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-390: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-391: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]; IN-393: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "--; IN-443: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-440: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; IN-444: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 and 22 reads, "IN-444: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-441: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; IN-445: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-447: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 23 and 24 reads, "IN-448: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-451: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-451: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-450: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-452: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-450: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-450: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-449: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 25 and 26 reads, "IN-452: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-454: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-456: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-455: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-457: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-458: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-458: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; IN-458: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-474: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-473: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 27 and 28 reads, "IN-471: Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya; IN-429: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-430: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-423: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-430: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-430: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-425: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-422: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 29 and 30 reads, "IN-421: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-424: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-420: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-416: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-489: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-490: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; IN-490: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 31 and 32 reads, "IN-483: Balkuwārā; IN-481: Balkuwārā; IN-481: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]; IN-481: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 33 and 34 reads, "IN-484: Balkuwārā; IN-482: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]; IN-485: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 35 and 36 reads, "--; IN-487: Balkuwārā; IN-483: Balkuwārā; IN-483: Balkuwārā; IN-493: Jubairiyya and Balkuwārā (Djubairiyah u. Manqūr)."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 37 and 38 reads, "IN-487: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]; IN-485: [Balkuwārā (Manqūr)]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 39 and 40 reads, "IN-511: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; IN-511: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 41 and 42 reads, "IN-511: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; [IN-507: Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-500: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-501: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-501: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-501: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 43 and 44 reads, "IN-505: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-505: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-506: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-508: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-509: [House at Ṣūr ʿĪṣā (Haus bei Ṣūr ʿĪṣā)]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 45, 45a and 46 reads, "IN-510: [House at Ṣūr ʿĪṣā (Haus bei Ṣūr ʿĪṣā)]; IN-517: Dār al-Khilāfa (Bayt al-Khalīfah)."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Finds, Sketchbook 3
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-14 FSA A.06 07.14
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."
- Since these are primary sources, handwritten captions in the sketchbook are specified in three stages: (1) an English designation following Thomas Leisten and Alastair Northedge's terminology; (2) the transcribed original caption in German which is provided under parenthesis; and (3) additonal information from Herzfeld's publication, "Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und Seine Ornamentik. Verlag Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin, 1923." and Thomas Leisten's publication, "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003" which is provided under bracket.
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.
Funding note:
Funded by
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
Antiquities  Search this
Architectural drawing  Search this
Art of the Islamic World  Search this
Decoration and ornament  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Mural painting and decoration  Search this
Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this
Parthians  Search this
Pottery  Search this
Relief (Sculpture)  Search this
Religious buildings  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sketchbooks
Drawings
Sketches
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, File FSA A.06 07.14
See more items in:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc324977ac1-5793-449d-a614-59cf3132087b
EDAN-URL:
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