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
Scope and Contents:
- The fifteenth 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 second campaign of excavations at the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dār al-Khilāfa, Jawsaq al-Khāqāni, Bayt al-Khalīfah) including the western garden, the Bāb al-ʿĀmma and the square reception-hall block, the great courtyard (Great Esplanade), the south side of the complex, the Large Serdab, the Rotundabau, the east end and the Small Serdab, the stable and pavilions, the barracks, Al-Hamman, and finally the north palace.
- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra ; plan aufnahmen 6."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "--."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Great Courtyard, wall of mud brick with arched niches and stucco moldings]; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 reads, "--."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 5 and 6 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, square sunken basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 7 and 8 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 9 and 10 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, circular hall]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, transverse halls flanked by two rooms with niches]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "--; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, room with niche flanking the transverse halls]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, dependencies]; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "--; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 and 22 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Pavilion]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, North Pavilion]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 23 and 24 reads, "--; [Topographical measurements of unidentified location]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 25 and 26 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Western Garden, south of the square ornamental pool]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Western Garden, south of the monumental steps]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 27 and 28 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south of the square ornamental pool]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 29 and 30 reads, "."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 31 and 32 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, elevated belvedere, known as al-Hammam, located northwest of the square-reception hall]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 33 and 34 reads, "--; --."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 35 and 36 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, courtyard building with central circular basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms east of courtyard with central circular basin]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 37 and 38 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, courtyard north of square reception-hall block]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, buildings in courtyard north of square reception-hall block]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 39 and 40 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, courtyard south of the barracks of the palace guards]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, buildings in courtyard located between the Large Serdab and the North Palace]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 41 and 42 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, northwest corner of the palace complex, barracks of the palace guards]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, northwest corner of the palace complex, barracks of the palace guards]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 43 and 44 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, reception-hall block on raised terrace]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, small buildings on the north end of the western garden]."
- Original handwritten notes for pg. 45 and 46 reads, "--; --."
Arrangement:
Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
Local Numbers:
S-26
FSA A.06 07.26
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 Alastair Northedge's publication, "An Interpretation of the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dar Al-Khilafa or Jawsaq Al-Khaqani). In Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23. Gülru Necipoglu, ed. Ann Arbour: Department of History, University of Michigan, 1993." 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.
