Object Details
- Local Numbers
- S-30 FSA A.06 07.30.04
- 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 Thomas Leisten's publication, "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003" 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.
- Funding note
- Funded by
- 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
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-30: "Samarra, Privathäuser." Contains measured drawings of plans and architectural details with cross-references to sketchbooks (S-12/29) and to the Fundjournal. The material on the houses should be studied in conjunction with the photographs in Photo Files 19--23 and the unpublished plans and drawings in the "D" (drawings) file.
- Extent
- 1 Sketch (1 folder (1 leaf), various small dimensions.)
- Date
- 1911-1913
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 07.30.04
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sketches
- 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
- - Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
- - S-30 is organized into 17 subdivisions which include one or several items of original materials.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Drawings
- Scope and Contents
- - The identification of the residential sites: "Herzfeld numbered all sites while the excavation was still in progress. When it became obvious that two courtyards with adjacent rooms turned out to belong to the same complex, however, he assigned new numbers. Herzfeld gave numbers to 16 houses in various locations, splitting certain buildings into, for instance, House Va or XIb, naming in all 24 different sites. [...]. Unfortunately, Herzfeld changed the numbering of the houses a third time when he finished the final drawings for the publication, including only 14 houses. [...]. In those cases in which Herzfeld noted on his field sketch either the name of the area or the new numbering of the house we can at least identify the site. These records indicate al-Quraina (Qurainah) as the location of Houses I to VI, connect al-Qāṭūn with House XI, the area of Ṣūr ʿĪṣā with Houses VIII and IX, and a House XVII with Jubairiyya." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003; p.121."]
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'a' reads, "House I (Haus I)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'b' reads, "House II (Haus II)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'c' reads, "House III (Haus III)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'd' reads, "House IV (Haus IV)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'e' reads, "House V (Haus V)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'f' reads, "House VI (Haus VI)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'g' reads, "House VI (Haus VIa)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'h' reads, "House VII (Haus VII)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'i' reads, "House VII (Haus VIIa)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'j' reads, "House VIII (Haus VIII)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'k' reads, "House IX (Haus IX)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'l' reads, "House X (Haus X)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'm' reads, "House XI (Haus XI)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'n' reads, "House XII (Haus XII)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'o' reads, "House XII (Haus XIIa)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'p' reads, "House XIII (Haus XII, Haus XIII)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'q' reads, "House XIII (Haus XIIIa)."
- - Translated (original) handwritten notes for item 'r' reads, "House XIV (Haus XIV)."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219967569-0
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