Vicinity of Nihavand (Iran): Two Stone Mace-Heads, from Prehistoric Mound of Tepe Giyan

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.0502
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Glass Negative probably related to campaigns of investigation at Nahāvand (Iran), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld between 1923 and 1931.

Place: Asia; Iran; Luristān (Iran); Nahāvand (Iran); Iran -- Hamadan -- Nihavand

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

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: - Glass Negatives, chronogically numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, 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. "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. Plate XXVI, bottom."

Scope and Contents: - Inventory of objects in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [inventory number 2648, 1; inventory number 2648, 2].; - Inventory of objects related to Tepe Giyan in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [TG 250; TG 251].; - Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers; SK-29, p.16.; - Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "2648, 1; 2648, 2; Skzb. III 16."; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.1.2: Vol. 2, No. 217 (Negative Number: 502) Tepe Giyān. Two stone mace-heads. IAE, p1.XXVI."