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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 (46 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 thirteenth 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.
- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra ; plan aufnahmen 4."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 and 2reads, "Topographical measurements including Balkuwārā (Manqūr)."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 3 and 4 reads, "Topographical measurements."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 5 and 6 reads, "Topographical measurements."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 7 and 8 reads, "Topographical measurements."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 9 and 10 reads, "Topographical measurements."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "Topographical measurements."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "Topographical measurements; [Balkuwārā palace, general plan of the complex with outer enclosure]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, gate I, sketch of southern wing]; [Balkuwārā palace, gate I, sketch of southern wing]; [Balkuwārā palace, ornament 24]; [Balkuwārā palace, gate III]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, southwest quadrant of the palace]; [Balkuwārā palace, southwest quadrant of the palace]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, Great (eastern) Īwān]; [Balkuwārā palace, Great (eastern) Īwān]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 and 22 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, Great Īwān, horizontal timber-frame construction]; [Balkuwārā palace, Great Īwān, vertical timber-frame construction]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 23 and 24 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, wall enclosure around courtyard I and including gate I]; [Balkuwārā palace, Great (eastern) Īwān]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 25 and 26 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, Great (eastern) Īwān]; [Balkuwārā palace, bath]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 27 and 28 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, Mosque I]; [Balkuwārā palace, bath, soffit of arch in the alcove vaults]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 29 and 30 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, bath]; [Balkuwārā palace, Great (eastern) Īwān]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 31 and 32 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, Great Īwān, blind niches]; [Balkuwārā palace, bath, ornament 1b]; [Balkuwārā palace, courtyard III]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 33 and 34 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, River Garden, pavilion A]; [Balkuwārā palace, vertical timber-frame construction]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 35 and 36 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace]; [Balkuwārā palace, Mosque I]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 37 and 38 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, gate III]; [Balkuwārā palace, niches in room 7 and 9]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 39 and 40 reads, "--; --; [Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya]; --; [Balkuwārā palace, ornament 1b]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 41 and 42 reads, "[Balkuwārā palace, ornament 28 and 29]; [Balkuwārā palace, niches in room 7 and 9]; [Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya, inscription I]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 43 and 44 reads, "[Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya, octagonal building]; [Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya]; [Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya, octagonal building]; [Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya, inscription II]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 45 and 46 reads, "[House XI (formerly Haus VII)]."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 4
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-24 FSA A.06 07.24
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
Architectural drawing  Search this
Architecture  Search this
Art of the Islamic World  Search this
Decoration and ornament  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Inscriptions  Search this
Mural painting and decoration  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 07.24
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/dc3abcad469-7bcc-451e-82b2-5f765aea25eb
EDAN-URL:
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