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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 Item (Photographic print, b&w, 16 cm. x 11.5 cm.)
Container:
Item Print 21–1
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Asia
Syria
Aleppo (Syria)
Date:
1908-1914
Scope and Contents:
- Handwritten caption accompanying Print 21-1 reads, "Corpus, PI. CXXXIII2. Ferdows, Portal (Photo. Oppenheim)."
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.3: vol. 3; Item Print 21-1.Ferdows, portal. Photo, Oppenheim. Corpus, p1. CXXXIIIa."
Ferdows, portal. Photo, Oppenheim. [graphic]
Arrangement:
Photo files, numbered 1-42, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves.
Local Numbers:
Item Print 21-1 FSA A.06 04.15.3.055
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The drawings are related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Art of the Islamic World  Search this
Archaeology  Search this
Architecture  Search this
Inscriptions  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographic prints
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 04.15.3.055
See more items in:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.15: Photo File 15: "Aleppo" / 4.15.3: Vol. 3
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3631da5d7-9ad8-4d0e-a42e-9cb945262a43
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref18806