Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): View of the Qasr al-Ashiq towards the North

Object Details

Local Numbers: Box 11, File 20, Folder 10, Image 59b FSA A.06 04.PF.20.119
General: Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publication, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 6: Geschichte Der Stadt Samarra."
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Prints 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 in 1911 and 1913.

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

Topic: Abbasids; Architecture; Art of the Islamic World; Excavations (Archaeology); Panoramas

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.20: Photo File 20: Samarra: Wandschmuck and Geschichte der Stadt Samarra / Include prints of illustrations in vol.VI, Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, "Die Geschichte der Stadt Samarra." Plate numbers are those given in the printed text. Also included are related panoramic views, unpublished.

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: 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.

Scope and Contents: Caption provided by Joseph Upton reads, "Samarra. Āshiq. Burg ruinen nach N. gesehen."; Additional information from Archives staff reads, "No existing negative. Print marked with Herzfeld's original seal."