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Excavation of Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran): Ruins of Ghaga-Shahr, "Palace-Temple" Complex, Painted Gallery under North Terrace: View of Fragmentary Paintings Depicting One of the Two Human Figures with Trident and Spear

Catalog Data

Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Names:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Collection Creator:
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this
Extent:
1 Lantern slide (color, 13 cm. x 18 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Lantern slides
Place:
Asia
Iran
Sīstān va Balūchistān (Iran)
Iran -- Sistan and Baluchestan -- Kuh-e Khwaja
Date:
1925-1929
Scope and Contents:
"FSA A.6 04.LS.4022" is one of 41 color lantern slides relate primarly to a visit and a campaign of excavation at Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in February 1925 as well as in February/March 1929.
Handwritten number, in white pencil (probably by Ernst Herzfeld) reads, "No. 6."
Handwritten number, in black ink (probably by Joseph Upton) reads, "4022."
- Typed caption at bottom of the lantern slide reads, "Uvachrom A.-G. f. Farbenphotographie. München."
- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Subseries 4.17: Photo File 17, Image No. 54 (Negative Number: 4022) and Subseries 4.29: Photo File 29, Image No. 115 (Negative Number: 4022). Kūh-i Khwāja painted gallery. Bust of goddess IAE, p1. CIII, bottom."
- Lantern slide in Ernst Herzfeld Papers; FSA A.6 04.LS.4023.
- Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers; SK-15, p.34.
Arrangement:
Color lantern slides, numbered from 4017 to 4058, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.LS.4022
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Finding Aid and Trudy S. Kawami, Lawrence Becker and Robert Koestler's publication, "Kuh-e Khwaja, Iran, and Its Wall Paintings: The Records of Ernst Herzfeld. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 22, (1987)."
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Topic:
Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this
Architecture  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Mural painting and decoration  Search this
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
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.6 04.LS.4022
See more items in:
Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3b7762d83-eea9-4637-b6d3-55786424495d
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref29973