- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 3: Notebooks" is composed of 131 folders including a large variety of locations, names, topics, genres, and languages. As of today, only four inventories of objects (ledgers) have been digitized and are available online.
- FSA A.6 03.089 consists of an inventory book to which Ernst Herzfeld recorded archaeological remains, prehistoric artifacts and antiquities collected, acquired, or observed in several cities throughout Mesopotamia and Persia in 1923 and 1924.
- FSA A.6 03.090 consists of an inventory book which supplies an abbreviated and corrected version of FSA A.6 03.089 and a continuation of N-91.
- FSA A.6 03.091 consists of an inventory book which is a continuation of FSA A.6 03.089. Herzfeld added an inventory of objects collected, acquired, or observed in several cities throughout Persia in 1926 and 1927, 1929, and finally 1932 and 1933.
- FSA A.6 03.092 consists of an inventory book which displays two separate inventories of objects. The first list comprises a finds journal from the session of excavations at Pasargadae, carried out by Herzfeld and Krefter in April and May 1928. The second list, without dates, enumerates prehistoric artifacts and antiquities collected, acquired, or observed in Baghdad, Hamadan, Harsin, Kermanshah, Nihavand, Tehran, and possibly Ur.
Arrangement:
Notebooks, ledgers, notes, and sketches, housed in document boxes and stored on shelves, are organized by Joseph Upton into 131 subdivisions.
Biographical / Historical:
"Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879-1948) was an orientalist whose many talents led him to explore all phases of Near Eastern culture, from the prehistoric period to Islamic times and from linguistics and religion to art and architecture." [Margaret Cool Root, 1976: "The Herzfeld Archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 11, pp. 119-124."]
Local Numbers:
FSA A.06 03
General:
- Notebooks titles are 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, "Series 3: Notebooks 1904-1946, 1957, n.d. ."
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
