Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.0469
- 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
- Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Pasargadae in November 1905 while on an expedition from Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) to Shiraz (Iran). In mid-November 1923, he conducted a preleminary campaign, completing various measured plans and drawings. Finally, a four-week session of excavations in April and May 1928, funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, was carried out by Ernst Herzfeld, assisted by the architect Friedrich Krefter.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Pasargadae (Extinct city)
- Iran -- Fars -- Pasargadae -- Palace P
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Architecture
- Decoration and ornament
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Mural painting and decoration
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files
- Extent
- 1 Glass negative (b&w, 13 cm. x 18 cm.)
- Date
- 1905-1928
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.0469
- Type
- Archival materials
- Glass negatives
- 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.
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- - Finds Journal from the Excavation of Pasargadae in 1928, (N-92), in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [Pasargadae Find Object Number 25].
- - Drawing in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 05.1199; FSA A.6 05.1200; FSA A.6 05.1201].
- - Glass plate in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 04.GN.0409; FSA A.6 04.GN.0410; FSA A.6 04.GN.0456; FSA A.6 04.GN.0464; FSA A.6 04.GN.0465].
- - Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: SK-9, p.19, 20, and 21.
- - Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "Pasargadae, P: painted coverings of shafts of wooden columns, W portico."
- - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.2: Photo File 2 (2Vols.). 'Pre-Achaemenian.' Subseries 4.2.2: vol. 2, No. 150 (Negative Number: 469). Pasargadae, building P. Painted coverings of columns."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219959967-1
