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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 (21 pages), 26 cm. x 16.7 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 fourth 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; the Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya; the palaces of Balkuwārā, Ṣūr ʿĪṣā, and the Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; and finally the residential architecture and the baths at Quraina, Wadī al-Muḥḥ, Qāṭūn, Jubairiyya, and west of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā.
- Ernst Herzfeld has drawn a map grid which allows him to accurately record the location of all sites excavated in the Dār al-Khilāfa. The two-dimensional map, using a simple coordinate system (numbers on the horizontal axis and letters on the vertical axis), is available on Internet, http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=FS-FSA_A.06_05.1018
- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra 4; Funde."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 and 2 reads, "Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; Viollet; al-Quwair; IN-461: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq (östlich von ʿĀshiq)]; IN-461: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-461: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 3 and 4 reads, "IN-462: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-460: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-460: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-460: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; Great Mosque, Miḥrāb."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 5 and 6 reads, "IN-55; IN-44: [Ḥaram]; IN-54."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 7 and 8 reads, "--; --; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 9 and 10 reads, "[IN-585: Bath I]; [IN-543: Private house and Mosque]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "--; IN-544: [Private house and Mosque]; --; IN-389: [Jubairiyya, House XVII]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "[IN-543: Private house and Mosque]; --; IN-460: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; IN-460: [East of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "IN-417: [Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq]; --; --; [IN-545: Private house and Mosque]; [IN-544: Private house and Mosque]; --; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "IN-513: [Haus XIII (Bartus) (Haus XII)]; IN-552: Haus IX (Haus VI); IN-552: [Haus IX (Haus VI)]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "IN-802: Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 17t/v); IN-752: Dār al-Khilāfa, 26v, 26w (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 26v/w); IN-703: Dār al-Khilāfa, 26v, 26w (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 26v/w); IN-693: Dār al-Khilāfa, 26v, 26w (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 26v/w); IN-880: Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem, (Bayt al-Khalīfah); IN-635: Dār al-Khilāfa, 11 and 16 (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 11 u. 16); IN-829: Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v (Bayt al-Khalīfah, 17t/v); IN-881: Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem (Bayt al-Khalīfah, Ḥarem); Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau (Bayt al-Khalīfah, Rotundabau)."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 reads, "IN-882: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem (Bayt al-Khalīfah)]."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Finds, Sketchbook 4
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-15 FSA A.06 07.15
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
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 07.15
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/dc307a308c2-4c69-480e-bbe0-fb40c94f1b36
EDAN-URL:
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