Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.2: Photo File 2: "Pre-Achaemenian, Pasargadae, Naqsh-i Rustam, Istakhr" / FSA A.6 04.PF.02.v2: Vol. 2
- Container
- Item Print 164
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- 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
- Print corresponds to negative number 2214.
- Scope and Contents
- Excavation of Pasargadae (Iran):Rock-Cut Canal, also knowned as the "Royal Road," on Sides of the Pulvar River. Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Pasargadae in November 1905 while on an expedition from Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) to Shiraz (Iran). In mid-November 1923, he conducted a preleminary campaign, completing various measured plans and drawings. Finally, a four-week session of excavations in April and May 1928, funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, was carried out by Ernst Herzfeld, assisted by the architect Friedrich Krefter. 18 cm. x 13 cm. Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "Pasargadae, rock-cut road to Persepolis."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714162183-4
