Sunghur (Iran): Squeeze of Arabic Inscription, in Kufic Script, from Unidentified Gravestone
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- A-30 FSA A.6 06.A030
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Finding Aid.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Iran -- Kermanshah -- Sunghur
- Topic
- Art of the Islamic World
- Archaeology
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions, Arabic
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions / 6.1: Arabic Script / A-30: Sunghur, tombstone. Borders in three sections, numbered 30/30b. Kufic. See N-117, p.3 or 5 and SK-I, p.29
- Extent
- 1 Item (paper squeeze, b&w, 14 in.x 38 in. (35.5 cm. x 96.5 cm.))
- Date
- 1923
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 06.A030
- Type
- Archival materials
- Paper squeezes
- 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
- Papers squeezes are organized in sequential number following language scripts, which are housed in folders, and stored in metal flat files.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Paper Squeezes
- Scope and Contents
- - Additional information from Ernst Herzfeld's notebook, N-108 (Arabische Inschriften I), reads, "[Page] 5. Sunghur, Kuf. Grabstein."
- - Additional information from Joseph Upton's Finding Aid reads, "Arabic No. 30: [no neg.] Sunghur, tombstone. Borders in three sections, numbered 30/30b. Kufic. See N-108, p.3 or 5 and SK-I, p.29."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219967418-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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