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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 Drawings (visual works) (Drawing 1 folder (26 leaves), various dimensions.)
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Drawings
Place:
Asia
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra
Date:
1911-1913
Scope and Contents:
- The identification of the residential sites: "Herzfeld numbered all sites while the excavation was still in progress. When it became obvious that two courtyards with adjacent rooms turned out to belong to the same complex, however, he assigned new numbers. Herzfeld gave numbers to 16 houses in various locations, splitting certain buildings into, for instance, House Va or XIb, naming in all 24 different sites. [...]. Unfortunately, Herzfeld changed the numbering of the houses a third time when he finished the final drawings for the publication, including only 14 houses. [...]. In those cases in which Herzfeld noted on his field sketch either the name of the area or the new numbering of the house we can at least identify the site. These records indicate al-Quraina (Qurainah) as the location of Houses I to VI, connect al-Qāṭūn with House XI, the area of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā with Houses VIII and IX, and a House XVII with Jubairiyya." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003; p.121."]
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'a' reads, "IN-57; IN-270: [Kūrah]; IN-185: [House IX, room 4 (formerly Haus VI, zimmer 4)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'b' reads, "IN-187: [House IX, room 4 (formerly Haus VI, zimmer 4)]; IN-188: [House IX, room 5 (formerly Haus VI, zimmer 5)]; IN-186: [House IX, room 4 (formerly Haus VI, zimmer 4)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'c' reads, "IN-189: [House IX, room 4 (formerly Haus VI, zimmer 4)]; IN-2092: [House XII, room 1 (formerly Haus IX, zimmer i)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'd' reads, "IN-631: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'e' reads, "IN-56."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'f' reads, "[Ornament 31]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'g' reads, "[Ornament 33]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'h' reads, "IN-36; IN-38; IN-59; IN-627: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 35n]; IN-732: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 26w]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'i' reads, "IN-890: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall, south (Thronsäle Süd)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'j' reads, "IN-69: [House I (formerly Haus I)."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'k' reads, "IN-70: [House I]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'l' reads, "IN-30: [Sargid ʿAbbās]; IN-58; IN-70: [House I]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'm' reads, "IN-39."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'n' reads, "IN-268: khirr Gzêïgi."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'o' reads, "IN-220: [House XIII, room 12 (formerly Haus IX, zimmer 12)]; IN-211: [Bath II, (Bad II)]; IN-222: [House XII, bath, room 10 (formerly Haus IX, bad, zimmer 10)]; IN-227: [House XII, room 20 (formerly Haus IX, zimmer 20)]; IN-689: [Tall al-Alīq (Tell al-Alidj)]; IN-691: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'p' reads, "IN-129: [House II, west and east room (formerly Haus I, west and ost zimmer)]; IN-621: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 11 and 16]; IN-620: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16t, 31q]; IN-681: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31s]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'q' reads, "IN-656: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 33l]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'r' reads, "IN-656: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 33l]; IN-977: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall (Thronsäle)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 's' reads, "[room 6]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 't' reads, "[House IX, room 7 (Haus IX, zimmer 7)]; [House XIV, room 8 (Haus II, zimmer 8)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'u' reads, "[House V, room 37, 45 ( Haus V, zimmer 37, 45)]; [House II, room 8 (Haus II, zimmer 8)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'v' reads, "[House II, room 8 (Haus II, zimmer 8)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'w' reads, "IN-109: [House II, room 13 ([formerly] Haus I, zimmer 13)]; IN-103: [House IV ([formerly] Haus III)]; IN-102: [House VII]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'x' reads, "[IN-215: House XIV, T-shaped Hall (Haus VIII, T-form)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'y' reads, "[IN-925: Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall (Thronsäle)]."
- Translated handwritten notes for item 'z' reads, "[IN-874]."
Arrangement:
- Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
- S-30 is organized into 17 subdivisions which include one or several items of original materials.
Local Numbers:
S-30 FSA A.06 07.30.02
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
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
Pottery  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
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 07.30.02
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Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-30: "Samarra, Privathäuser." Contains measured drawings of plans and architectural details with cross-references to sketchbooks (S-12/29) and to the Fundjournal. The material on the houses should be studied in conjunction with the photographs in Photo Files 19--23 and the unpublished plans and drawings in the "D" (drawings) file.
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
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EDAN-URL:
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