Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Box 11, File 20, Folder 10, Image 79a FSA A.06 04.PF.20.150
- 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.
- 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 -- Balad -- Harba Bridge
- Topic
- Islamic art and architecture series
- Topic
- Abbasids
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Inscriptions
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- 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 / Inscription of the Caliph al-Mustansir on the Jisr Harbah
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print, b&w, 11.8 cm. x 17 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.20.150
- 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, 1948: "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 6; Geschichte Der Stadt Samarra. Verlag Von Eckardt & Messtorff, Hamburg. Andrews and Dietrich Reimer, in Berlin. Tafel XXXI, top."
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Original publication caption in German reads, "Inschrift des Khalifen al-Mustanṣir auf der Brücke von Ḥarbā, Südseite."
- Caption provided by Joseph Upton reads, "379. Inschrift des Khalifen al-Mustanṣir auf der Brücke von Ḥarbā, Südseite I (Anfang)."
- Additional information from Archives staff reads, "No existing negative. Print marked with Herzfeld's original seal."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219959433-3
