Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions
- Container
- Volume S-31
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Scope and Contents note
- Miscellaneous material including: a: a letter to van Berchem (November 10, 1911) enclosing a copy of an inscription at Imam Dur with Herzfeld's reading and related material; b: a letter to Geheimrat Ed. Meyer discussing the wall and moat at Samarra; c: a discussion of the Arabic measurement "ell" inresponse to an article by C. A. Nallino, Turin, 1893; d: a letter to Dr. Becker, Hamburg, March 15, 1913, describing revolutionary activities of Persians in Baghdad and Anglo-Russian activities in Persia with comments on the Young Turks and the Persian Prince, Salar ad-dauleh; e: a letter to Dr. Becker, December 21, 1910, regarding fragments of papyrus with Arabic inscriptions found at Samarra, together with pertinent photographs and sketches; f: miscellaneous inscriptional material from Samarra and a plan of the Shiite sanctuary in 1911 with the inscriptions of the sardāb of the Mahdi; g: clippings from German newspapers regarding the excavations at Samarra; h: miscellaneous note, including two letters from Pere Anastase about changes in the Arabic readings in a publication by Massignon and concerning the cupola at Salman Pak; a note on the Arabic musical scale; and one on Gertrude Bell's publication, Ukhaidir
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163194-9
