D-1009a: Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Topographical Map Compiled by Survey Party, Mesopotamian Expedition Forces, T.C. 108

Object Details

Place: Asia; Iraq; Mesopotamia; Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq); Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Topic: Architectural drawing; Art of the Islamic World; Excavations (Archaeology); Cartography

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps / D-1009: A-C Maps: Set of sections T.C. 108--118 of 1917, 6" to a mile of area of Iraq, including Samarra

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: 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.

Scope and Contents: Original caption in English reads, "T.C. 108. Jilam Plain. Dated 24-7-1917. Samarrah. Scale 6 inches to 1 mile. Compiled from 6th Survey by survey Party M.E.F. Based on Triangulation. Litho Section G.H.Q."; - Additional information reads, "It was now well on in May I9I7, and the little survey party which had followed the fortunes of the 3rd Corps was at last broken up. I (G. A. Beazeley) was transferred with my computer, to take charge of a detachment of two officers and eight surveyors to carry out a large-scale survey of Samarra and its neighbourhood. The scale selected was the 6-inch, and it was decided to call in the aid of air photographs, which were adjusted to a framework of points fixed by triangulation and plane-table intersection. The congregated photos were then reduced to the 6-inch scale, blue prints prepared and issued to the surveyors, who transferred the detail to their boards and carried out supplementary survey including contouring. The total area surveyed was I20 square miles and included A1 Kaim and Istabulat." [G. A. Beazeley: Surveys in Mesopotamia during the War. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Feb. 1920), pp.109-123. Published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)].; - Additional information reads, "One duplicate copy, local number: FSA A.6 05.1009duplicates, not available online, stored in map case drawer 32."