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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 (25 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 eighteenth 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; kleine plane."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 and 2 reads, "Palace of al-Iṣbaʿain (al-Isbaʿain); Palace of Ṣūr al-Wasṭānī (Ṣūr al-Wasṭāni)."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 3 and 4 reads, "Dār Bakhtīshūʿ (Dār Bakhtīshūʿ); Palace of Ṣūr al-Wasṭānī (Ṣūr al-Wasṭāni)."
- 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, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, square reception-hall block, the five halls and the basin on its north side, all situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "[Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya (Abu Dulaf Mosque), north quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda and sketch of recessed niche of the courtyard facades]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "[Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya (Abu Dulaf Mosque), south quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda and plan of the miḥrāb]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "[Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya (Abu Dulaf Mosque), west and east quadrants of the mosque and ziyāda]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "[Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya (Abu Dulaf Mosque), levelling measurements]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 and 22 reads, "[Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya (Abu Dulaf Mosque), double-column base in the qibla aisle and sketch of the nothern quadrant of the mosque]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 23 and 24 reads, "al-Jubairiyyah (Djubairiyyah)."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 25 reads, "[Section of architectural details]."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 9
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-29 FSA A.06 07.29
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
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 07.29
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/dc31c484881-5166-4484-a0ca-8283770724c6
EDAN-URL:
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