Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Tomb of Artaxerxes III Ochus: View of Entrance Door to the Tomb as well as Half-Columns with Impost-Block Depicting a Pair of Animal Protomes
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.1694
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Persepolis (Iran)
- Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Tomb of Artaxerxes III
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Animals in art
- Architecture
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Relief (Sculpture)
- 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, 18 cm. x 13 cm.)
- Date
- 1923-1928
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.1694
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst: "Rapport sur l'état actuel des ruines de Persépolis et propositions pour leur conservation; Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Herausgegeben von Ernst Herzfeld. Band I. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1929-30. Tafel 26, Fig.47."
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.5: Photo File 5 (3vols.). 'Persepolis.' Subseries 4.5.2: Vol.2, Image No. 290 (Negative Number: 1694). N tomb. Artaxerxes, doorway. AMI, vol.I, fig.47; IAE, p1.XLV, right."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219960036-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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