Excavation of Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran): Ruins of Ghaga-Shahr, "Palace-Temple" Complex: View of North-West End of the Raised Terrace Containing the Painted Gallery

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.2084
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

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.

Scope and Contents: Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "Kūh i Khwāja, vaulted room, W-end of high platform above gallery."; Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.7: Photo File 7 (2 vols.) "Sasanian Architecture," Subseries 4.7.1: Vol.1, Image No. 212 (Negative Number: 2084). Kūh-i Khwāja. Vaulted room above gallery."