S-18: (same), marked "Samarra Funde 7"

Object Details

Local Numbers

S-18 FSA A.06 07.18

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 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. Gülru Necipoglu, ed. Ann Arbour: Department of History, University of Michigan, 1993." 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

Creator

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Names

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Collection Creator

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Place

Asia

Iraq

Mesopotamia

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Topic

Abbasids

Antiquities

Architectural drawing

Art of the Islamic World

Decoration and ornament

Excavations (Archaeology)

Mural painting and decoration

Pottery

Relief (Sculpture)

Religious buildings

Creator

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions

Extent

1 Volume (Sketchbook (46 pages), 12.8 cm. x 25.7 cm.)

Date

1911-1913

Archival Repository

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier

FSA.A.06, File FSA A.06 07.18

Type

Archival materials

Volumes

Sketchbooks

Drawings

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.

Arrangement

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

Collection Rights

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

Genre/Form

Sketchbooks

Drawings

Sketches

Scope and Contents

- The seventh of a series of eighteen sketchbooks (Skizzenbücher), in which Ernst Herzfeld recorded his observations on topography, landscape, archaeological remains, architecture, artifacts and decorative motifs, related to the second campaign of excavations at the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dār al-Khilāfa, Jawsaq al-Khāqāni, Bayt al-Khalīfah) including the western garden, the Bāb al-ʿĀmma and the square reception-hall block, the great courtyard (Great Esplanade), the south side of the complex, the Large Serdab, the Rotundabau, the east end and the Small Serdab, the stable and pavilions, the barracks, Al-Hamman, and finally the north palace.

- Ernst Herzfeld has drawn a map grid which allows him to accurately record the location of all sites excavated in the Dār al-Khilāfa. The two-dimensional map, using a simple coordinate system (numbers on the horizontal axis and letters on the vertical axis), is available on Internet, http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=FS-FSA_A.06_05.1018

- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra 7; Funde."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "IN-780: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 26n]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-697: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 26v]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-670: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31s]; IN-670: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31s]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-675: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31s]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 and 5 reads, "IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-895; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v]; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v]; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 6 and 7 reads, "IN-810: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-810: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v];; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v]; IN-600: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 16u, 16v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 8 and 9 reads, "IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-895; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 10 and 11 reads, "IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-769: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17v]; IN-788: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 22m]; IN-825: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17u]; IN-764; IN-795."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 12 and 13 reads, "IN-877; IN-783: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-886; IN-866; IN-886; IN-774: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-886; IN-886."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 14 and 15 reads, "IN-886; IN-774: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t) [Bayt al-Khalīfah]; IN-857: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-887: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem]; IN-774: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-783: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-597: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31o]; IN-823; IN-823; IN-823; IN-783: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-809: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]; IN-860: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t, 17v]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 16 and 17 reads, "IN-783: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17t]; IN-597: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31o]; IN-893: [Dār al-Khilāfa], 17t, 17v; IN-892: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall, south (Thronsäle Süd); IN-892: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall, south (Thronsäle Süd); IN-658: [Dār al-Khilāfa], 31s; IN-778: [Dār al-Khilāfa], 26n; IN-823: [Dār al-Khilāfa], 22m."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 18 and 19 reads, "IN-923: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Basilikale Thronsaal); s.n.."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 20 and 21 reads, "IN-924: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Cruciform Reception-Hall (Cruciform saal); IN-924: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Cruciform Reception-Hall (Cruciform saal)."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 22 and 23 reads, "IN-973; IN-972; IN-924: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Cruciform Reception-Hall]; IN-923: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Cruciform Reception-Hall]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 24 and 25 reads, "IN-963: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-963: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal)."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 26 and 27 reads, "IN-980; IN-980; IN-989; IN-980; IN-980; IN-989."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 28 and 29 reads, "IN-986: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-925: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal)."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 30 and 31 reads, "IN-925: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-925: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-985."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 32 and 33 reads, "IN-985; IN-985: Ghanā 'ur."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 34 and 35 reads, "IN-985; IN-985."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 36 and 37 reads, "IN-979: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-979: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-979: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 38 and 39 reads, "IN-990: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-965: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 40 and 41 reads, "IN-965: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem]; IN-965: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Ḥarem]; IN-983: [Dār al-Khilāfa]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 42 and 43 reads, "IN-983: [Dār al-Khilāfa]; IN-983 [Dār al-Khilāfa]; IN-925: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-984; IN-984; IN-984; IN-984."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 44 and 45 reads, "IN-982: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-982: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-982: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-982: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-982: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-981; IN-984; IN-984; IN-996; IN-996."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 46 and 47 reads, "IN-999; IN-999; IN-995: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-995: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-998; IN-998; IN-997: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal); IN-997: [Dār al-Khilāfa, Throne Hall]; IN-998; IN-998; IN-995: [Dār al-Khilāfa], Throne Hall (Thronsaal)."

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Finds, Sketchbook 7

Collection Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Record ID

ebl-1562714161089-1562714163176-0

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3adcfc40f-a1a3-45f6-84ee-b75bc9111b26