D-915: Taq-i Bustan (Iran): Detail of Rug Pattern on Edge of Boats, Drawn from the Sasanian Rock Reliefs

Taq-i Bustan (Iran): Detail of Rug Pattern on Edge of Boats, Drawn from the Sasanian Rock Reliefs [drawing]

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Local Numbers: D-915 FSA A.06 05.0915
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld original drawings'caption and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Taq-i Bustan (Iran) in early August 1913 while on an expedition from Samarra (Iraq) to Asadabad (Hamadan, Iran). The drawing may be related primarly to this expedition as well as to additional visits to Taq-i Bustan (Iran) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1917 and 1923 (end of June).

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Names: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Collection Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Place: Asia; Iran; Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran); Iran -- Kermanshah -- Taq-i Bustan

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Archaeology; Architectural drawing; Relief (Sculpture); Sassanids; Textile design

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps / D-915--916: Taq-i Bustan, textile. Rug patterns on edge of boats. IAE, fig.417

Extent: 1 Drawings (visual works) (27.2 cm. x 11.4 cm.)

Date: 1913-1923

Container: Item D-915–916

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.0915

Type: Archival materials; Drawings (visual works); Drawings

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: Drawings 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.

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

Bibliography: Herzfeld, Ernst. "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press, 1941, fig.417."