Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): View of Arabic Inscription, Kufic Script, on the Inside Wall of the Mausoleum Imam al-Dur

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.

View manifest View in Mirador Viewer

Object Details

sova.fsa.a.06_ref25940

GUID

Local Numbers: File 23-48-182 FSA A.06 04.PF.23.182
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's transcript of original captions written on the backs of the prints which were glued to an Album page."
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; Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor, 1865-1945
Collection Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Place: Asia; Iraq; Mesopotamia; Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- al-Dur

Topic: Art of the Islamic World; Inscriptions; Inscriptions, Arabic; Archaeology; Religious buildings

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.23: Photo File 23: Samarra: Paläste und Moscheen--II / are not in the Album. They are miscellaneous photos of all ruins mentioned, plus some of Imam Dur (Nos. 175--182)

Extent: 1 Item (photographic print, b&w, 17 cm. x 12 cm.)

Date: 1907

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 04.PF.23.182

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 planned but never published volumes of the "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra" series to deal with the architecture of the palaces, mosques and private houses. They are 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.

Genre/Form: Photographic prints

Scope and Contents: - Caption provided by Joseph Upton reads, "No.: 8. 398. [in blue: 63] Imām Dūr. I Feld der Kufischen Inschrift d. Muslim b. Quraish."; - Original photograph number given in red reads, "398."; - Original photograph number given in blue, possibly indicating a revision, reads, "63."; - Additional information from Archives staff reads, "No existing negative. Print marked with Herzfeld's original seal."