Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 8

Object Details

Local Numbers

S-28 FSA A.06 07.28

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.

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

Architectural drawing

Architecture

Art of the Islamic World

Decoration and ornament

Excavations (Archaeology)

Mural painting and decoration

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 / S-26--28: "Samarra Planaufnahme 6--8"

Extent

1 Volume (Sketchbook (47 pages), 12.8 cm. x 25.7 cm.)

Archival Repository

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier

FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 07.28

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 seventeenth 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.

- Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra ; plan aufnahmen 8."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 and 5 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 6 and 7 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 8 and 9 reads, "--; --; --."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 10 and 11 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 12 and 13 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 14 and 15 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms next to courtyard with basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms between courtyard with basin and cruciform plan of dome chamber]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 16 and 17 reads, "--."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 18 and 19 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, bath on the south side of courtyard with basin]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 20 and 21 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of courtyard with basin and bath]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 22 and 23 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, square room with circular basin which was named Kāsat-i Firʿawn]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, room identified as a harīm]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 24 and 25 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the southwest side of the square room with circular basin which was named Kāsat-i Firʿawn]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 26 and 27 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 28 and 29 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 30 and 31 reads, "--."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 32 and 33 reads, "--; --."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 34 and 35 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of the transversal hall between dome chamber and great courtyard]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 36 and 37 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of the transversal hall between dome chamber and great courtyard as well as a warren of small rooms east of the harīm]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 38 and 39 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 40 and 41 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, fountain at the central point of the dome chamber with cruciform plan]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 42 and 43 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of room identified as a harīm]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of a dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 44 and 45 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; --."

- Original handwritten notes for pg. 46 and 47 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; --."

Collection Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Record ID

ebl-1585219957152-1585219967566-0

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3499307ae-5ee2-4fa9-afd9-e487098b937e