Excavation of Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran): Ruins of Ghaga-Shahr, "Palace-Temple" Complex, North Terrace: View of East Tower before Excavation

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Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.3986
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 campaigns of excavation at Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in February 1925 as well as in February/March 1929.

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Names: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Collection Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

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

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

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: 1925-1929

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.3986

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, 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.

Genre/Form: Glass negatives

Scope and Contents: Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 17 reads, "Kūh-i Khwāja. Palace. Tower of E. wall (from outside)."; Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.17: Photo File 17, Image No. 20 (Negative Number: 3986). Tower of E wall."