Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Alabaster Column Base, Found in al-Quraina, House IX, Room 5
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Box 11, File 19, Folder 1, Image 11c FSA A.06 04.PF.19.019
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publication, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 1: Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik."
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Prints related primarly to the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
- 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 -- al-Quraina
- Topic
- Islamic art and architecture series
- Topic
- Abbasids
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Find Objects -- Samarra
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.19: Photo File 19: Samarra: Wandschmuck / are from the volume
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print, b&w, 6.5 cm. x 7.3 cm.)
- Date
- 1911-1913
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 04.PF.19.019
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographic prints
- 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
- Prints are organized in sequential number following publication series, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra." They are arranged in photo file folders which are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923: "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 1; Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik. Verlag Dietrich Reimer Ernst Vohsen, Berlin. Plate IX, bottom center."
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- - Original publication caption reads, "J.-N. 188 [IN-188]."
- - Additional information from Photo File 19 reads, "Pl. IX, top left. J.-n. 188. Haus IX, Zimmer 4."
- - Additional information from Finds Journal reads, "IN-188: Kiste 7; Haus IX [previously Haus VI], zimmer 5; [Excavated on] March 31, 1911."
- - Additional information from Archives staff reads, "No existing negative."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219959339-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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