Excavation of Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran): Black Basalt Mountains in the Waters of Hamum Lake: View of the South End of the Island

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.2055
General: Title is provided by FSg Archives staff based on Joseph Upton's Finding Aid and Trudy S. Kawami, Lawrence Becker and Robert Koestler's publication, "Kuh-e Khwaja, Iran, and Its Wall Paintings: The Records of Ernst Herzfeld. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 22, (1987)."
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Glass negatives related primarly to a visit and a campaign of excavation at Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in February 1925 as well as in February/March 1929.

Place: Asia; Iran; Sīstān va Balūchistān (Iran); Iran -- Sistan and Baluchestan -- Kuh-e Khwaja

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Excavations (Archaeology); Natural landscapes

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, numbered from 1 to 3850, 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, 1941: "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press. Plate XCVI, top."

Scope and Contents: Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "Kūh i Khwāja."; Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.7: Photo File 7 (2 vols.) "Sasanian Architecture," Subseries 4.7.1: Vol.1, Image No. 179 (Negative Number: 2055). Kūh-i Khwāja. S end of island. IAE, p1.XCVI, top."