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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 Print (-- cm. x -- cm.)
Container:
Item D-1008
Type:
Archival materials
Prints
Maps
Drawings
Place:
Asia
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra
Date:
1912-1913
Scope and Contents:
- Original caption in German reads, "Samarra. (Blatt 1-3). Aufgenommen vom 1.12.1912 - 5.2.1913 von Ludloff Hauptmann im Groβen Generalstabe. Blatt 3."
- Additional information reads, "In 1913 the German Expedition surveyed Sāmarrāʼ, the work being done by Hauptmann Ludloff at a scale of 1:25000. This plan was never published. The plates were destroyed by bombing in Germany during the Second World War but copies are in the Herzfeld Archives in the Freer Gallery, Washington." [Alastair Northedge: Planning Sāmarrāʼ: A Report for 1983-4. Iraq, vol. 47 (1985), pp. 109-128. British Institute for the Study of Iraq.]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1008a FSA A.06 05.1008a
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Architectural drawing  Search this
Art of the Islamic World  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Cartography  Search this
Genre/Form:
Maps
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 05.1008a
See more items in:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps / D-1008: Map: Samarra. Blatt 3 (7 copies)
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3a48c355a-65b7-4f74-935e-cab1b00bb2af
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref24716