Taq-i Bustan (Iran): Sassanid Rock Reliefs, Small Vault with Investiture Relief of Shaphur III: View of Relief Picturing Shaphur III and Middle Persian Inscription
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.1836
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Taq-i Bustan (Iran) in early August 1913 while on an expedition from Samarra (Iraq) to Asadabad (Hamadan, Iran). The drawing may be related primarly to this expedition as well as to additional visits to Taq-i Bustan (Iran) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1917 and 1923 (end of June).
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)
- Iran -- Kermanshah -- Taq-i Bustan
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Archaeology
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions, Pahlavi
- Middle Persian language
- Relief (Sculpture)
- Royalty (Nobility)
- Sassanids
- Textile design
- 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
- 1913-1923
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.1836
- 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.
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 8, vol. 1 reads, "Ṭāq i Bustān, small grotto: Shāpur III."
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.8: Photo File 8 (2 vols.), "Sasanian Monuments," Subseries 4.8.1: vol. 1; Image No. 189 (Negative Number: 1836). Taq-i Bustan, small grotto. Detail, Shāpūr III."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219960132-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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