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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Verlag Philipp von Zabern  Search this

Anistās Mārī, al-Karmilī, ab, 1866-1947  Search this

Becker, Carl Heinrich, 1876-1933  Search this

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926  Search this

Berchem, Max van, 1863-1921  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Krefter, Friedrich, 1898-1995  Search this

Meyer, Eduard, 1855-1930  Search this

Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor, 1865-1945  Search this

Extent:

150 Linear feet (circa 30,000 items)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Blueprints

Journals (accounts)

Photographs

Clippings

Notebooks

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Articles

Paper squeezes

Correspondence

Diaries

Sketches

Rubbings

Place:

Turkey

Mesopotamia

Bakun, Tall-e (Iran)

Iran

Iraq

Lebanon

Persepolis (Iran)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Syria

Date:

1903-1947

Summary:

An outstanding scholar in the field of Iranian studies, Ernst Herzfeld (1879--1948) explored all phases of Near Eastern culture from the prehistoric period to Islamic times. This collection documents Herzfeld's excavations at Samarra, Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Aleppo and includes correspondence; field notebooks; drawings; sketchbooks; inventories of objects; "squeeze" copies of architectural details; and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

Papers (1899--1962) of German born archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879--1948), a preeminent scholar of Near Eastern and Iranian studies. The collection measures 150 linear feet (circa 30,000 items) and documents Herzfeld's work as a pioneer in the field and sheds light on his excavations at Samarra, Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Aleppo. Formats include correspondence; field notebooks; drawings; sketchbooks; inventories of objects; "squeeze" copies of architectural details; and photographs.

Arrangement:

This collection is organized into seven series.

Series 1: Travel journals

Series 2: Sketchbooks

Series 3: Notebooks

Series 4: Photographic files 1-42

Series 5: Drawings and maps

Series 6: Squeezes

Series 7: Samarra Expedition

Biographical / Historical:

The Ernst Herzfeld Papers document the career of Ernst Herzfeld (1879--1948), a German architect, archaeologist, and historian of Islamic and Pre-Islamic studies. After training as an architect he studied archaeology under Delitzch from 1903 to 1906 at the excavations at Assur in Mesopotamia. A student of Latin, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, Herzfeld received a doctorate in Humanistic Studies at universities in Munich and Berlin in 1907. His work with Friedrich Sarre to survey the monuments of the Tigris-Euphrates valleys resulted in landmark studies in architectural history, published in 1911 and 1920.

In 1920 Herzfeld was appointed to the chair of Historical Geography in Berlin and began his excavation at Samarra. Herzfeld's work there led to a six-volume publication. He published widely throughout his life on the sources of Islamic architecture and ornament, including the Royal Palace at Persepolis.

From 1934 until the end of his life Herzfeld spent his time producing many books and articles, lecturing, and working at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1936--1945.) Many of his works continue to be published post-humously.

1879 July 23 -- Born in Celle, Germany.

1897 -- Received diploma from Joachimsthaler Gymnasium, Berlin.

1897-circa 1898 -- Fulfilled military service.

circa 1899 -- Studied architecture at the Technical University and Assyriology, art history, and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhems Universität in Berlin.

1903 -- Passed exam in structural engineering.

1903-1905 -- Assistant to Walter Andrae (1875-1956) in Assur.

1905-1906 -- Traveled throughout Iran and Iraq.

1907 -- Excavation in Cilicia. Passed oral exam in February. Awarded doctorate in Humanistic Studies by Friedrich-Wilhems Universtät zu Berlin. After receiving Ph.D. traveled extensively in Syria and Iraq with Friedrich Sarre, director of the Islamic Museum in Berlin.

1910 -- Herzfeld and Sarre jointly publish, Iranische Felsreliefs (Berlin, 1910).

1911-1913 -- Field Director under direction of Sarre during expedition to Samarra.

circa 1914 -- Drafted into service in France and Poland during World War I. Sent to Iraq where he functioned as a surveyor.

1916 -- Father died.

1917 -- Appointed associate professor for Historical Geography and Art History of the Ancient Orient at Berlin. Along with Friedrich Sarre and others, founded the German-Persian Society to increase cultural and economic exchange between Germany and Persia.

1920 -- Appointed world's first full professor of Near Eastern Archeology. Begins excavation at Samarra.

1922 -- Mother died.

1923-1934 -- In Persia, where he completed many excavations and studies.

1928 -- Excavation at Pasargadae.

1931-1934 -- Appointed director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and moved to Persepolis.

1934 -- As grandson of Jews, Nazi legislation expelling state employees of Jewish descent forced Herzfeld to retire as a professor employed by the state. Moved to London.

1936 -- Delivered Lowell Lectures. Moved to Boston. Lectured on Iranian history and appointed a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

1944 -- Retired from Princeton University.

1948 January 20 -- Died.

Provenance:

Ernst Herzfeld donated his papers to the Freer Gallery of Art in 1946.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ayyubids  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

History  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Description and Travel  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Aerial photography  Search this

Abbasids  Search this

Religious buildings  Search this

Numismatics  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Architectural drawing  Search this

Genre/Form:

Blueprints

Journals (accounts)

Photographs

Clippings

Notebooks

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Articles

Paper Squeezes

Correspondence

Diaries

Sketches

Rubbings

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

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3d8456fbe-98f6-4159-bd2f-c485379b84a7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a-06

Collector:

Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970  Search this

Photographer:

Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933  Search this

Names:

Islamic Archives  Search this

Muzaffar al-Dīn Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1853-1907  Search this

Nāsir al-Dīn Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1831-1896  Search this

Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1878-1944  Search this

Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933  Search this

Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970  Search this

Extent:

66 Photographic prints (various dimensions)

695 Glass negatives (b&w, 13 cm. x 18 cm)

98 Photographic prints (various dimensions)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Glass negatives

Gelatin silver prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

India

Uzbekistan

Baghdad (Iraq)

Basṭām (Iran)

Bīshāpūr (Extinct city)

Dāmghān (Iran)

Delhi (India)

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Hamadān (Iran)

Iṣfahān (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Persepolis (Iran)

Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)

Tehran (Iran)

Date:

1880s-1933

Scope and Contents:

Antoin Sevruguin operated a successful commercial photography studio in Tehran and was a court photographer to Nasr ed-Din Shah and succeeding Qajar rulers. Sevruguin's daughter and heir donated his glass negatives to the American Presbyterian Mission in Tehran. The Committee for Islamic Culture, which administered the Islamic Archives, purchased 695 negatives from the Presbyterian Mission in 1951. The collection also includes 164 silver gelatin prints, 98 acquired by Myron Bement Smith(MBS) in 1934 and 66 donated by Joseph Upton in 1953. The glass negatives are numbered but without apparent organization. MBS organized his photoprints into subject categories. Upton's photoprints are numbered according to a handwritten caption list. [Located Bay 7] For specific information on items in the collection search Sevruguin on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center web site http://collections.si.edu .

- 66 black-and-white gelatin silver photoprints, unmounted, were a gift from Joseph Upton, received by the committee for Islamic Culture, as reported in their official minutes of October 24, 1953. The 66 photoprints were initially purchased by Joseph Upton in 1928 from Antoin Sevruguin in Tehran.

- 695 glass negatives were included into the "Islamic Archives," which was administered jontly by the committee for Islamic Culture and the committee for Arabic and Islamic Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies. According to the official minutes, the committee for Islamic Culture reported purchasing the 696 glass plates during their fiscal years 1951-1952 from the American Presbyterian Mission in Tehran. Antoin Sevruguin's daughter gave these plates to the mission with instruction that they be sold for the benefit of the mission.

- 98 gelatin silver photoprints were collected by Myron Bement Smith after he viewed a portion of Sevruguin's negatives in 1934 ( these include recent finds in the Myron Bement Smith collection).

In addition of Antoin Sevruguin's 695 glass negatives and 164 silver gelatin prints in the Myron Bement Smith collection the Archives holds: 18 albumen prints in theJay Bisno Collection of Sevruguin Photographs (FSA A.15); 34 photographic prints in the Ernst Herzfeld Papers (FSA A.6); as well as a photograph album and individual albumen prints donated by Stephen Arpee (FSA A2011.03). Finally, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives also own 3 separate gelatin silver prints.

Myron Bement Smith Collection: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs

Arrangement:

- 66 gelatin silver prints are arranged in sequential number following Joseph Upton's handwritten list of captions, and ultimately organized by Myron B. Smith into subject categories (royalty, people, executions, criminals, punishment, architecture).

- 695 glass negatives, numbered, without any apparent organization, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.

- 98 gelatin silver prints are organized by Myron B. Smith into subject categories (people, architecture, royalty, landscape).

Biographical / Historical:

Antoin Sevruguin managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran in the late 19th century. Born in the 1840s in Iran, Sevruguin's mother returned with her children to her hometown of Tbilisi after his father Vassil, a Russian diplomat in Iran, died in a horse riding accident. Trained as a painter, Sevruguin returned to Iran in the early 1870s accompanied by his two brothers, establishing a photography studio first in Tabriz and then Tehran. His studio's ties to Tbilisi, however, persisted through the years; many of the early portraits of Dervishes and women have been simultaneously attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and Dimitri Yermakov, the Georgian photographer who is often referred to as Sevruguin's mentor from Tbilisi. Many of Antoin Sevruguin's photographs were published as early as 1885 in travelogues, journals and books indicating that by that time he had a fully established practice in Tehran's Ala al-Dawla street, with ties to the court of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar. Often unacknowledged as the producer of published images in his own time - the 1902 photographic survey of Persepolis being the most glaring of such authorial misrepresentations - he was nevertheless celebrated and acknowledged for his artistic vision and his keen eye for composition, achieving the Medal of Lion and Sun from Nasir al-Din Shah, the 1897 Medal of Honour in the Brussels International Exposition, and the 1900 Medal of Honour in Paris International Exposition. Reflecting a career that spans nearly half a century, Sevruguin's diverse body of work includes studio portraits of families, women and dervishes, survey photographs of archeological sites, objects, landscapes and architecture, and photographs of royalty, high officials and ceremonies of the Qajar court. The range of his output not only demonstrates his own pictorial concerns and artistic abilities but also the divergent interests of his clients. Despite numerous devastating incidents throughout his career - the loss of more than half of his negatives in a 1908 blast and fire, an unsuccessful attempt at diversifying into cinematography in the 1910s, and the confiscation of the remainder of his negatives in the mid-1920s to name a few - his studio remained operational even after his death in 1933. A number of negatives from the Sevruguin studio can be dated to the years after Antoin's death, indicating that the Sevruguin studio continued to be commercially viable. As one of the most prolific early commercial photographers in Iran, Antoin Sevruguin's artistic legacy has since proved far more enduring.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.04 2.12

General:

Titles and summary notes are provided by Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, FSg curatorial research specialist.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Clothing and dress  Search this

Criminal procedure  Search this

Executions and executioners  Search this

headgear  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Landscapes  Search this

Portrait photography  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Religious buildings  Search this

Royalty (Nobility)  Search this

Sassanids  Search this

Shrines  Search this

Textile design  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Glass negatives

Gelatin silver prints

Collection Citation:

The Myron Bement Smith Collection. FSA.A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith.

Identifier:

FSA.A.04, Subseries 2.12

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Myron Bement Smith Collection

Myron Bement Smith Collection / Series 2: The Islamic Archives

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3663a9188-da2c-4fec-a971-3e726a7f8cdf

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-04-ref9047

Translator:

Hoyland, Robert G. 1966-  Search this

Author:

Container of (expression): Ḥamzah al-Iṣfahānī 893 or 894-970 or 971 Tawārīkh sinī mulūk al-ar wa'l-anbiyā' 8-66 English  Search this

Container of (expression): Masʻūdī -956? Tanbīh wa-al-ishrāf Selections English  Search this

Container of (expression): Yaʻqūbī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb -897? Tārīkh 178-203 English  Search this

Physical description:

xii, 185 pages maps, genealogical tables 22 cm

Type:

Books

Early works to 1800

Early works

History

Place:

Iran

Date:

2018

To 640

To 1500

Jusqu'à 651

640-

Topic:

Historiography  Search this

Kings and rulers  Search this

History  Search this

Histoire  Search this

Restrictions & Rights:

Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 0. Uk

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1146462

Honouree:

Bates, Michael L  Search this

Editor:

Daryaee, Touraj 1967-  Search this

Lerner, Judith A  Search this

Contributor:

Rey, Virginie 1978-  Search this

Physical description:

340 pages illustrations (some color), maps 25 cm

Type:

Books

Festschriften

History

Place:

Middle East

Date:

2020

Topic:

Islamic coins--History  Search this

Monnaies islamiques--Histoire  Search this

Islamic coins  Search this

Numismatics--History  Search this

Economic conditions  Search this

Political aspects  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1146470

Author:

Brentjes, Sonja  Search this

Physical description:

334 pages illustrations (some color), color maps 21 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

Islamic countries

Pays musulmans

Date:

2018

Topic:

Science--Study and teaching--History  Search this

Mathematics--Study and teaching--History  Search this

Sciences--Étude et enseignement--Histoire  Search this

Mathématiques--Étude et enseignement--Histoire  Search this

Science--Study and teaching  Search this

Mathematics--Study and teaching  Search this

Islam  Search this

Lehre  Search this

Lernen  Search this

Wissenschaft  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1159453

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Container:

Box 19, Folder 28

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1913-1914

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

See more items in:

Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc38d01133a-fc80-4781-a382-bb38471c4e89

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref332

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany)  Search this

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Verlag Philipp von Zabern  Search this

Anistās Mārī, al-Karmilī, ab, 1866-1947  Search this

Becker, Carl Heinrich, 1876-1933  Search this

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926  Search this

Berchem, Max van, 1863-1921  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Meyer, Eduard, 1855-1930  Search this

Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor, 1865-1945  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

186 Items (Field notes: drawings, sketches, sketchbooks, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, blueprints, notes, diaries, prints, journals (accounts), publications, articles, clippings, rubbings.)

Type:

Archival materials

Articles

Blueprints

Clippings

Correspondence

Drawings

Diaries

Journals (accounts)

Notebooks

Photographs

Rubbings

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Lebanon

Syria

Mesopotamia

Bakun, Tall-e (Iran)

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Date:

1906-1945

Scope and Contents:

The material from the excavations at Samarra, except for the photographs mounted in Photo Files 19--3, and drawings which are in Series 5: Drawings.

"Two campaigns of excavation at Samarra in Iraq, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin between the years 1911 and 1913 mark the beginning of large-scale archaeological research on Islamic antiquities. During this time, Herzfeld was supported for brief periods by the swiss architect Samuel Guyer, Commander von Ludloff, various technical assistants, and finally Friedrich Sarre, who was the director of the Islamic department at the museum and initiator of the expedition. For most of the time, however, all tasks that today would be divided among a team of archaeologists rested solely on Herzfeld's shoulders: coordinating hundreds of workmen at various sites, measuring buildings, drawing architecture and objects, and cataloging finds, but also negociating with local authorities who were often uncooperative. Still working at a time when the success of a venture such as the Samarra expedition was measured by its spectacular finds in both architecture and precious objects, the immense responsibility for bringing this expedition through the unexplored territories of Islamic archaeology to a successful conclusion presented an enormous physical and psychological challenge. In an effort that from the perspective of modern archaeology must be called Herculean, he excavated and examined nineteen sites [Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, Congregational Mosque of Madinat al-Mutawakkiliyya, Shiite Shrine Complex, Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya; palaces of Balkuwārā, Ṣūr ʿĪṣā, and the Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq; the Cemetery at Shabbat al-Hawā; Mausoleum of Imām al-Dūr; Tall al-ʿAlīq; Ḥarba Bridge and finally the residential architecture at al-Quraina, al-Qāṭūn, al-Jubairiyya, and west of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā, and the baths] and collected a stupendous corpus of material, one that in many respects still forms the foundation for our knowledge of the city of Samarra and ʼAbbāsid art in the 3rd/9th centuries. What is astonishing is that Herzfeld himself considered his achievements during the first campaign in Samarra to be merely a dress rehearsal for the more ambitious second campaign which focused on the Dār al-Khilāfa." [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. Preface, p.IX."]

Arrangement:

135 units of original materials; numbered subseries, kept in the order in which they arrived, and housed in document boxes.

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 07

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, Thomas Leisten's publication, "Excavation of Samarra, vol 1," 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."

Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

Field 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.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Papyrus  Search this

Abbasids  Search this

Aerial photography  Search this

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Architectural drawing  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Description and Travel  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Numismatics  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Religious buildings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Articles

Blueprints

Clippings

Correspondence

Drawings

Diaries

Journals (accounts)

Notebooks

Photographs

Rubbings

Sketchbooks

Sketches

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, Series 7

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3580e42ce-5d00-4c2c-85db-fcaa3aa760e7

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10431

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Notebook (43.3 cm. x 27 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-1

Type:

Archival materials

Notebooks

Journals (accounts)

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910-1913

Scope and Contents:

- Original caption in German reads, "Fund Journal." Translated caption in English reads, "Finds Journal."

- Additional information for the first campaign reads, "Herzfeld started to excavate at the Great Mosque of Samarra on January 9 and finished the work on February 26, 1911 [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-1 through IN-46]. The same day that the excavation in the Great Mosque was closed, work began at al-Quraina. Here, Houses I-X were excavated mainly during March and the first week of April 1911. Work on House IX continued through May since outstanding fresco paintings were discovered there [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-47 through IN-50; IN-61 through IN-65; IN-69 through IN-205; IN-208]. In the first week of April, Herzfeld split his groups of workers to be able to examine three more sites simultaneously. In a two-day campaign he cleared House XI at Qātūn [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-206 and IN-207]. At the same time, excavation began on a residential complex situated to the west of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā palace [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-209; IN-215 through IN-227; IN-257 through IN-266]. Finally two baths were discovered to the west of the Great Mosque [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-210 through IN-214; IN-267]. Activity at all three sites ended between April 9 and 11. Herzfeld spent the third week of April documenting the excavations in the Great Mosque and registering small finds. In the second half of May [May 8-28] Herzfeld started to work on two more sites. During work at a place called Shabbat al-Hawā, they found a pre-islamic cemeterey beneath the Islamic layers. The cemetery was explored between May 15-25 [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-295 through IN-384; IN-477 through IN-480]. A second excavation was carried out in what Herzfeld then referred to as House XVII (May 15-28) north of Jubairiyya [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-385 through IN-403]. More excavations of residential architecture were undertaken to the north of the modern city in an area called 'kūra,' [May 8-13] [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-270 through IN-294]. With a few of the remaining workers Herzfeld moved to the Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq on May 28, only to leave them on June 3 for the first of a series of excursions he took in the course of both campaigns. He returned as late as June 30 [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-404 through IN-476]. On the way back he visited the mausoleum at al-Dūr for the first time. On July 13, Herzfeld complained that work in ʿĀshiq had not brought results. In an attempt to change this situation he sent his trusted friend Shaul to Ḥilla to hire workmen from this region. With a total of 70 workers he began to clear structures at Manqūr during the last week of July that soon turned out to be the central audience hall of Balkuwārā [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-481 to IN-488; IN-491 to IN-499]. On August 30, Herzfeld, convinced of the need for plans in order to obtain funding for a second campaign in Samarra, decided to stop the excavation at Manqūr immediately and to suspend all excavations for two more months until the arrival of Friedrich Sarre in October 1911. During the first week of December 1911, Herzfeld was still at work finishing the leveling of Qaṣr al-ʿĀshiq [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-500 through IN-508]. Only now, in the last two weeks of the first campaign in Samarra [December 9-25], were Viollet's finds examined. On the last day before he left {December 9-11], Bartus by chance found a building on the west side of the Shāriʿ al-Aʿẓam. The walls were covered with a set of frescoes showing human figures and various animals, the most interesting so far discovered in this campaign [According to the Finds Journal, finds were collected and listed as IN-513 to IN-516]. [The last registered entry (IN-553) for the first campaign in Samarra reads, "December 18, 1911."]. On December 25, Bedri Bey arrived at Samarra and drew up an official letter ending the campaign according to the proposal of both Sarre and Herzfeld. An inventory of all the finds and tools was made and they were prepared for storage." [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. 11-19."]

- Additional information for the second campaign reads, "The second campaign's excavation was mainly concerned with the Dār al-Khilāfa. According to the Finds Journal, The first find (IN-554) of the second campaign was collected and registered on December 3, 1912. Finds registered as IN-554 through IN-829 were carefully listed with sketches, location, description, date of discovery, inventory number and cross-references to photographs and sketchbooks. The last find of the second campaign (IN-1004) has no date since dates of discovery were consistently provided through IN-948 only."

- Additional information for the end section of the Finds Journal reads, "The remaining registered finds (IN-1005 through IN-1161) appear to have been unconsistently listed at a later period. Sketches, location, description, date of discovery, and cross-references to photographs and sketchbooks are partly missing for most of the entries. The locations appear to cover various excavated sites from both the first and the second campaign in Samarra."

- Additional information from staff reads, "IN-874 (7/9, p.2)."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Finds Journal

Arrangement:

Drawings, sketches, notes and prints 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:

S-1

FSA A.06 07.01

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."

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.

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

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Genre/Form:

Journals (accounts)

Notebooks

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, File FSA A.06 07.01

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany)  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Volume (Publication (300 pages), 30 cm. x 21.5 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-2

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Publications

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1945-1946

Scope and Contents:

Additional information from staff reads, "IN-874 in right display (7/9, p.12)."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Corrected page-proofs of Vol. VI, "Die Geschichte der Stadt Samarra"

Arrangement:

Drawings, sketches, notes and prints 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:

S-2

FSA A.06 07.02

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Herzfeld's publication, "Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg, Eckardt & Messtorff; Buchhändlerischer Vertrieb durch D. Reimer, Andrews & Steiner, Berlin, 1948," and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Genre/Form:

Publications

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, File FSA A.06 07.02

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany)  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Volume (Publication (300 pages), 30 cm. x 21.5 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-3

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Publications

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1945-1946

Scope and Contents:

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Corrected page-proofs of Vol. VI, "Die Geschichte der Stadt Samarra, Including Original Handwritten Annotations"

Arrangement:

Drawings, sketches, notes and prints 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:

S-3

FSA A.06 07.03

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Herzfeld's publication, "Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg, Eckardt & Messtorff; Buchhändlerischer Vertrieb durch D. Reimer, Andrews & Steiner, Berlin, 1948," and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Genre/Form:

Publications

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, File FSA A.06 07.03

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3bc825b5b-6ed3-484b-94cc-34535bd92a99

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10435

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Notebook (22.5 cm. x 12 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Notebooks

Journals (accounts)

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910-1913

Scope and Contents:

- Original title on cover in German reads, "Samarra, kleinfund, text - abb., S-4:1."

- Original handwritten notes for page 01 reads, "[First, for each finds, Herzfeld has entered the original sketchbook number followed then by the inventory number]: Holz (Wood): I 3, IN-16; I 8, IN-21; IV 20, IN-xx; V 18, IN-658, IN-660; V 29, IN-597; V 30, IN-597, IN-598; V 34, IN-619; V 35, IN-618; VI 2, IN-724; VI 21, IN-702; VI 22, IN-706 ; VI 23, IN-793; VI 24, IN-793, IN-809; VI 25, IN-793; VI 30, IN-793; VI 35, IN-885; VI 39, IN-890; VII 12, IN-783, IN-877, IN-886; VII 13, IN-774, IN-886; VII 14, IN-886, IN-597, IN-823; VII 15, IN-783, IN-809; VII 16, IN-597; VII 17, IN-658."

- Original handwritten notes for page 02 reads, "Marmor (Marble): I 3; I 8; I 9, IN-29; I 10; I 14; I 17; I 19; I 21; I 22;I 27, IN-70, IN-69; I 35-36, IN-185 to IN-188; I 37, IN-199; I 38, IN-151, IN-196; I 41, IN-129; II 2, IN-209; II 21, IN-57; II 21, IN-211, IN-220, IN-222, IN-227; II 24, IN-245, IN-246; II 34, IN-284, IN-285; II 34, IN-292; II 35, IN-292; III 2, IN-323; III 12, IN-370; III 20, IN-440; III 25, IN-452; IV 1; IV 4; IV 19, IN-695, IN-693, IN-752, IN-802, IN-880, IN-881."

- Original handwritten notes for page 03 reads, "Perlmutt; Elfenbein; Alabaster (Mother of Pearl, Ivory, Alabaster): I 1, IN-2; I 4; I 38, IN-110; I 40, IN-141, IN-95, IN-116; I 41, IN-160, IN-168, IN-125; I 42, IN-176, IN-111, IN-112; II 7, IN-138; II 8, IN-191; II 9, IN-165; II 10, IN-224; II 23, IN-249; II 29, IN-262; II 31, IN-265; II 33, IN-284, IN-288, IN-265; II 38, IN-326; II 40, IN-325; III 12, IN-368; III 17, IN-392; III 18, IN-391; III 22, IN-447; III 23, IN-448, IN-450, IN-451, IN-452; III 24, IN-449, IN-450; V 26, IN-557; V 27, IN-596; V 28, IN-585; V 46, IN-711."

- Original handwritten notes for page 04 reads, "Glas (Glass): I 1, IN-1; I 7; III 26, IN-473; III 34-35, IN-487; III 37; III 44, IN-508; V 19, IN-603; V 20-21, IN-561; V 22, IN-561; V 22-23, IN-604, IN-562; V 25, IN-610; V 30; V 46, IN-707; VII 28, IN-986; VIII 27, IN-784, IN-887; VIII 28, IN-265; II 33, IN-284, IN-288, IN-265; II 38, IN-326; II 40, IN-325; III 12, IN-368; III 17, IN-392; III 18, IN-391; III 22, IN-447; III 23, IN-448, IN-450, IN-954; VIII 29, IN-887, IN-779, IN-781, IN-750; VIII 30, IN-899; VIII 41, IN-767, IN-888, IN-951; VIII 42-43."

- Original handwritten notes for page 05 reads, "Bronze (Metal): I 14, IN-26; II 2, IN-225; II 3, IN-68; II 7, IN-113, IN-137, IN-139, IN-144, IN-122; II 8, IN-144, IN-154, IN-155, IN-162, IN-147; II 9, IN-193, IN-202, IN-203, IN-205, IN-226; II 17, IN-150, IN-200; II 22, IN-241; II 23, IN-242, IN-243; II 37, IN-327; III 2, IN-324, IN-327; III 11, IN-358, IN-366; III 18, IN-393; III 25, IN-454; III 26, IN-457, IN-458; III 27, IN-471; III 30, IN-490; IV 5, IN-55; V 26, IN-662, IN-670."

- Original handwritten notes for page 06 reads, "Schwarze stein (Blackstone): I 39, IN-108, IN-126; II 25, IN-244; II 25, IN-247; III 25, IN-248; II 25-26, IN-250, IN-251; II 27, IN-251, IN-252; II 31-32, IN-287, IN-288; II 33, IN-287; II 40, IN-286; III 18, IN-390; III 19, IN-443; III 20, IN-444; III 21, IN-441, IN-444; III 22, IN-445; IV 17, IN-513; V 29, IN-586; V 28, IN-587; VI 30; VI 31; VI 32, IN-734; VI 33, IN-816, IN-851; VI 34."

- Original handwritten notes for page 07 reads, "II 21; V 32-33, IN-601, IN-686; VI 5, IN-735; VI 6, IN-704; VI 7, IN-704; VI 47, IN-861."

- Original handwritten notes for page 08 reads, "Marmor (Marble): V 2-3, IN-556, IN-559, IN-637; V 6, IN-621, IN-622; V 6, IN-634; V 7; V 12, IN-628, IN-633; V 13, IN-637; V 14, IN-632, IN-620; V 15, IN-623; V 16, IN-620, IN-621; V 36, IN-664; V 37, IN-689; V 38, IN-691; V 39, IN-693; V 40, IN-693; V 41, IN-699; V 42, IN-703; V 43, IN-703; V 44, IN-703; V 45, IN-709; VI 1, IN-717; VI 6, IN-704; VI 11, IN-742; VI 11, IN-732; VI 12, IN-746; VI 13, IN-737; VI 14, IN-737; VI 16-17, IN-751, IN-752, IN-753; VI 19, IN-751."

- Original handwritten notes for page 09 reads, "Metall (Metal): V 31, IN-600; V 36, IN-675, IN-697; V 46-47, IN-712; VII 1, IN-780, IN-825, IN-860; VII 3, IN-670, IN-675, IN-860; VII 4, IN-788, IN-895; VII 5, IN-600, IN-788; VII 6, IN-600, IN-769, IN-810; VII 7, IN-769, IN-825, IN-788; VII 8, IN-895; VII 9, IN-590, IN-769, IN-895; VII 10, IN-769, IN-788, IN-825; VII 22; VII 38, IN-990; VII 46, IN-995; VII 48, IN-995."

- Original handwritten notes for page 10 reads, "Perlmutt; Elfenbein; Onyx (Mother of Pearl, Ivory, Onyx): VI 2, IN-2; VI 5, IN-733; VI 14, IN-793; VI 15, IN-740; VI 34-35, IN-790; VI 35, IN-798; VI 36-37, IN-816; VII 10, IN-764; VII 11, IN-795; VII 13, IN-886; VII 14, IN-857, IN-774, IN-783; VII 22, IN-793; VII 26, IN-989; VII 27, IN-989; VII 28, IN-986; VII 46, IN-999; VII 47, IN-997."

- Original handwritten notes for page 11 reads, "Marmor (Marble): VI 30, IN-587; VII 41, IN-983; VII 42, IN-983; VII 44, IN-982; VIII 1, IN-917; VIII 2, IN-917; VIII 2-3, IN-918; VIII 8, IN-968; VIII 9, IN-977; VIII 10-11, IN-916, IN-967; VIII 12, IN-916; VIII 13, IN-967; VIII 16; VIII 17, IN-918; VIII 26, IN-912."

- Original handwritten notes for page 12 reads, "Holz (Wood): VII 20-21, IN-924; VII 23, IN-923, In-924; VII 24, IN-963; VII 26, IN-980; VII 27, IN-980; VII 39, IN-965; VII 40, IN-965; VII 41, IN-965; VIII 23; VIII 24; VIII 24; VIII 46."

- Original handwritten notes for page 13 reads, "Kleine Plane (Small plans)."

- Original handwritten notes for page 14 are in English

- Original handwritten notes in red for page 15 reads, "to Throne-names...."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Small Finds Journal

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4

FSA A.06 07.04.1

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Journals (accounts)

Notebooks

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, File FSA A.06 07.04.1

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Notebook (11 pages, 22.5 cm. x 12 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-4

Type:

Archival materials

Notebooks

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910-1913

Scope and Contents:

- Finding aid title reads, "marked 'Samarra.' Miscellaneous notes dealing primarily with derivations and meanings of Arabic, Persian and Greek terms." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

- Additional annotations in Arabic, German, English, French deal with publication's excerpts as well as local people's informal accounts.

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Miscellaneous Notes

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4:2

FSA A.06 07.04.2

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Notebooks

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 07.04.2

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / FSA A.06 07.04.1: S-4: Scrapbook

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc34aaa93d3-c52b-4abe-899e-cd3ac8752fa9

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10438

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

19 Items (photographic prints, b&w, 17.1 cm. x 24.5 cm., 20 cm. x 22cm.)

15 Items (photographic prints, b&w, 18.7 cm. x 18 cm.)

1 Item (photographic print, b&w, 12.5 cm. x 17.6 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-4

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

bulk 1917

Scope and Contents:

- Finding aid title reads, "Manilla envelope with airplane photographs of Samarra (British Airforce and British Museum)." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Airplane Photographs of Samarra (British Airforce and British Museum)

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4:3

FSA A.06 07.04.3

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Aerial photography  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

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 07.04.3

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc30a343033-9e1b-4ea0-87a5-a9382a33ba2c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10439

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

77 Blueprints (b&w, 18.6 cm. x 18.3 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-4

Type:

Archival materials

Blueprints

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

bulk 1917

Scope and Contents:

- Finding aid title reads, "Blueprints of airplane photographs of Samarra (British Airforce and British Museum)." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Airplane Photographs of Samarra (British Airforce and British Museum)

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4:4

FSA A.06 07.04.4

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Aerial photography  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Blueprints

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 07.04.4

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / FSA A.06 07.04.1: S-4: Scrapbook

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc38b34a9ef-ac1c-4f22-9e4a-def1c4152f2b

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Notebook (18 pages, 25.4 cm. x 20 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-4

Type:

Archival materials

Notebooks

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910-1913

Scope and Contents:

- Finding aid title reads, "marked 'Samarra.' Arabic quotations dealing with place-names or the uses of certain words." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

- Transcripts of inscriptions in Persian and Arabic language, found on architecture, potteries, as well as in monasteries around Samarra. Additional handwritten annotation in German.

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Miscellaneous Notes

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4:5

FSA A.06 07.04.5

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Architectural drawing  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Notebooks

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 07.04.5

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / FSA A.06 07.04.1: S-4: Scrapbook

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10441

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Notebook (16.8 cm. x 10.4 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-4

Type:

Archival materials

Notebooks

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910-1913

Scope and Contents:

Original information in German reads, " Samarra. Vergleich von in den abgepackten und abgelieferten Kisten enthaltenen Inventarnummern." Translated information in english reads, "Samarra. Revised inventory of packaged items and shipped cases."

- Finding aid title reads, "Another list of cases with Inventory numbers." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

- Additional information from staff reads, "IN-874 (2/9, p.1)."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Detailed List of Cases Containing Small Finds, mostly Fragments of Ceramics

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-4:8

FSA A.06 07.04.8

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Notebooks

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 07.04.8

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / FSA A.06 07.04.1: S-4: Scrapbook

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3dc7fd99e-71ad-4412-838f-9d939d740004

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Correspondence (3 leaves), 32.7 cm. x 20.9 cm)

Container:

Volume S-5

Type:

Archival materials

Correspondence

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Scope and Contents:

- Original caption for item 'a' reads, "SAMARRA. REIHE IV. Privat hauser und Wanddecorationen." Translated caption reads, "Samarra. Series IV. Private Houses and Wall-decorations."

- Finding aid title reads, "marked 'Samarra. Aufstellungen für die Gesamtpublication, etc.'." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Contents of a Planned Volume Devoted to the Architecture of the Private Houses and their Wall Decorations

Arrangement:

- S-5 is organized into 8 subdivisions representing each one or several items of original materials.

- Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-5a

FSA A.06 07.05.1

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Architecture  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence

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 07.05.1

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-5: "Samarra. Aufstellungen für die Gesamtpublication, etc."

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc31ce1ed63-9dde-40c1-9816-d28e8d896978

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10446

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Correspondence (6 leaves), 32.7 cm. x 20.9 cm)

1 Item (Correspondence (28 leaves), 33 cm. x 21 cm)

Container:

Volume S-5

Type:

Archival materials

Correspondence

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Scope and Contents:

Finding aid title reads, "marked 'Samarra. Aufstellungen für die Gesamtpublication, etc.' Herzfeld's 'Entwurf für die Publication des Materials von Samarra. Zugleich Inventar des Photographien und Zeichnungen'." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]

Additional information from staff reads, "IN-874 (2/5, p.2 and 3)."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Detailed Draft Listing the Contents of the Unpublished Report on the Architecture of Samarra

Arrangement:

- S-5 is organized into 8 subdivisions representing each, one or several items of original materials.

- Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-5c

FSA A.06 07.05.3

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

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.

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

Architecture  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence

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 07.05.3

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-5: "Samarra. Aufstellungen für die Gesamtpublication, etc."

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3c99fdd89-b646-432a-a16f-033e061d8b70

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Diary (1 volume (137 pages), 25.8 cm. x 21.3 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-6

Type:

Archival materials

Diaries

Notebooks

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Syria

Lebanon

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1910 October 10–1911 September

1910-1911

Scope and Contents:

Account of trip from Berlin via Brindisi, Beirut, Raqqa, Baghdad, arriving in Samarra January 9, 1911. Followed by description of excavations through September 11, 1911.

- Original caption reads, "Samarra Tagebuch I, Ernst Herzfeld."

- Additional information reads, "Diary 1 starts with Herzfeld's journey from Lebanon to Aleppo, Syria, in the winter of 1910. It describes the crossing of Herzfeld's little caravan through eastern Syria along the Euphrates with frequent stops at sites of archaeological interest (Abu Huraira, Salihiyya-Dura Europos) and his way from Abu Kamal via Hit and Ana to Baghdad, which he reached in early December of 1910. [The bulk of the diary] conveys a remarkably consistent picture of the work carried out by Herzfeld between 1911 and 1912. It [is] a critical presentation of the congregational mosques in Samarra and Mutawakkiliyya as well as the mosques at Balkuwārā, followed by the enigmatic Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya. [It also focuses on] the history of the Samarra excavation before [...] World War I, [which is] inseparable from the international politics of its time. In addition, the life of an excavator at the turn of the century in such rough circumstances was inherently an adventure, as Herzfeld's diaries [and letters to Sarre] testify, in a tone that ranges from dry to emotional, and even humorous. [Finally] under the heading 'Samarra, January 9th, 1911, three pages containing a list of buildings that Herzfeld had visited or documented during his sojourn in Baghdad; eight pages containing topographical and personal names that Herzfeld encountered in the Samarra area and their correct Arabic spelling, pronounciation, etymology, and localization; two pages containing columns of figures; and three pages on desiderata in Aleppo." [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. 153; p. 162; p. 168.; pg. IX and X."]

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): First Campaign, Diary 1

Arrangement:

Journals, letters, diaries and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Local Numbers:

S-6

FSA A.06 07.06

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.

- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

Notes related primarly to the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.

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

Description and Travel  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Notebooks

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, File FSA A.06 07.06

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3a8758a8d-9c1b-4698-898c-6272ebf9648b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10454

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum  Search this

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Diary (1 volume (98 pages), 25.8 cm. x 21.3 cm.)

Container:

Volume S-7

Type:

Archival materials

Diaries

Notebooks

Place:

Asia

Iraq

Syria

Lebanon

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Date:

1911

Scope and Contents:

- FSA A.6 01.07, on which Joseph Upton's classification mentions "S-7", provides first an account of a round-trip expedition (June 3, 1911 to June 29, 1911) from Samarra to Paikuli; and second an account of a round-trip expedition (September 12, 1911 to October 8, 1911) from Samarra to Baghdad-Ktesiphon. Both journeys include topographical and archaeological notes, especially of Budkhaneh (Paikuli), Kerkuk, Imām Dūr, Balad, and Ctesiphon.

- Original title reads, "Samarra Tagebuch 2, Reise nach Sulaymānīyah und nach Ktesiphon Baghdad, Ernst Herzfeld."

- The account of the trip to Sulaymānīyah reads, "Dalu'iyyah, June 3, 1911 (pp. 6-8); Mandjūr, June 4, 1911 (pp. 8-10); Dalkāwah, June 5, 1911 (pp. 11-13); Abu Saidah, June 6, 1911 (pp. 13-16); Shahrabān, June 7, 1911 (pp. 17-18); Qyzrubāh (Qizil Robat, Qyzyl-ābād), June 8, 1911 (pp. 19-20); Khânigūn (Khanigin, Khāndjûn), June 9, 1911 (pp. 21-25); Khânigūn (Khanigin, Khāndjûn), June 11, 1911 (pp. 25-27); Haush Dury, June 12, 1911 (pp. 27-28); Qasr i Shirin, June 14, 1911 (pp. 28-31); Gūn gurūsh, June 15, 1911 (pp. 31); Būd Khāuch, Tel i Paikuli, June 17, 1911 (pp. 32-35); Būd Khāuch, June 18, 1911 (pp. 36-38); Qaradagh (Kara Dāgh), June 19, 1911 (pp. 38-39); Suleimēniyyah (Soleymaniyeh,Sulaymānīyah, Sulaimaniya), June 20, 1911 (p. 39); Suleimēniyyah (Soleymaniyeh, Sulaymānīyah, Sulaimaniya), June 23, 1911 (pp. 42); Tēnāw, June 22, 1911 (pp. 41); Tshemtshemāl, June 4, 1911 (pp. 46-48); Kerkūk (Karkūk, Kirkūk), June 24, 1911 (pp. 42-43); Kerkūk (Karkūk, Kirkūk), June 25, 1911 (pp. 43-45); Kerkūk (Karkūk, Kirkūk), June 26, 1911 (pp. 45-48); Busheriyyah, June 27, 1911 (pp.45-48); Hamrīn, June 28, 1911 (pp. 45-48); Imām Dūr, June 29, 1911 (pp. 48-50)."

- Additional information reads, "Draft of reply to Joseph Strzygowski's review of "Die Genesis der islamischen Kunst," (pp.51-57)."

- Additional information reads, "Notes on Gertrude Bell's Amurath to Amurath (london, 1911), (pp.58-62)."

- The account of the trip to Ctesiphon reads, "Balad, September 12, 1911 (pp. 63-67); Sumaikah, September 13, 1911 (pp. 68-73); Shari'ah al-Azam, September 14, 1911 (pp. 73-79); Ktesiphon, September 17, 1911 (pp. 79-82); Ktesiphon, September 18, 1911 (pp. 82-89); Seleukia, September 19, 1911 (pp. 89-94); Samarra, October 8, 1911 (p. 95)."

- Additional information reads, "Desiderata in Aleppo, (pp.96-98)."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 1: Travel Journals; Diary of Two Expeditions From Samarra (Iraq) to Sulaimaniya (Iraq) and to Ctesiphon (Iraq)

Arrangement:

In the original arrangement of the Ernst Herzfeld Archive, Travel Journals were included in a larger body of diverse material acknowledged by Ernst Herzfeld as his study collection. In the early 1970s, Joseph Upton, for research purpose, rearranged the collection and created a specific series (Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 1: Travel Journals, 1905-1928) for eight travel journals. For some reason, Upton has given this journal an accession number related to the series he created for the Samarra material (Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions, 1906-1945), probably following Herzfeld's original organization.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, S-7

FSA A.06 07.07

FSA A.06 07.07

General:

Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Ernst Herzfeld's original diaries.

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

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Description and Travel  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Parthians  Search this

Sassanids  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Notebooks

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, File FSA A.06 07.07

See more items in:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3af53e060-fe1f-4c98-b37b-d7b73c892e34

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10455