Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Apadana, North Side, Central Facade of Ceremonial Stairway: View before Excavation

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.1586
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 Persepolis in November 1905 during his expedition return from the Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) excavation. During the two last months of 1923 as well as early March 1924, He spent six weeks on the terrace of Persepolis, drafting a plan and providing a photographic record of the whole structure. In 1928, the architect Friedrich Krefter joined Herzfeld in Persia, in an expedition funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, to complete various measured plans and drawings in Persepolis. Excavations were begun on March 1, 1931, now under the auspices of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Ernst Herzfeld left Persepolis permanently in Spring 1934.

Place: Asia; Iran; Persepolis (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Apadana

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Architecture; Excavations (Archaeology); Relief (Sculpture)

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.

Scope and Contents: - Drawing in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 05.0849; FSA A.6 05.0878].; - Glass plate in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 04.GN.1571].; - Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: SK-5, p.46, 47.; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.5: Photo File 5 (3vols.). 'Persepolis.' Subseries 4.5.1: Vol.1, Image No. 68 (Negative Number: 1586). Stairway to Apadāna."