Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Typological Study of Ornamentation on Wooden Panel

Object Details

Local Numbers: S-11 FSA A.06 07.11.23
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 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.

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)

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-11: "Samarra, Holz". Contains water-colors of wooden panels (Nos.D-1234--1237) and miscellaneous drawings of wood, stone and glass objects with cross-references to sketchbooks (S-12--29) and to the "Fundjournal"

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

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: - S-11 is organized into 37 subdivisions which include one or several items of original materials.; - 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.

Existence and Location of Copies: - Sketch numbered IN-618; reproduced from Sketchbook FSA A.6 S-16, p. 35.; - Sketch numbered IN-793; reproduced from Sketchbook FSA A.6 S-17, p. 29.

Scope and Contents: - Original handwritten notes on verso reads, "IN-618, Skzb 5, pg. 35; IN-793, Skzb 6, pg. 29."; - Additional information from Finds Journal reads, "IN-618: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 31q, 31r]; IN-793: [Dār al-Khilāfa, 17u]."; - Finding aid title reads, "'Samarra, Holz'. Contains water-colors of wooden panels and miscellaneous drawings of wood, stone and glass objects with cross-references to sketchbooks and to the 'Fundjournal'." [Joseph M. Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive, compiled in 1974]