Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Palace of the Caliph (Dar al-Khilafa, Jawsaq al-Khaqani, Bayt al-Khalīfah): View of a basin
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.06 04.GN.3197
- General
- Title is provided by FSg Archives staff based on Joseph Upton's transcript of original captions written on the backs of the prints which were glued to an Album page."
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iraq
- Mesopotamia
- Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
- Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Dar al-Khilafa
- Topic
- Islamic art and architecture series
- Topic
- Abbasids
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- 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, 13 cm. x 18 cm.)
- Date
- 1930
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 04.GN.3197
- 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
- Prints are organized in sequential number following planned but never published volumes of the "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra" series to deal with the architecture of the palaces, mosques and private houses. They are are arranged in photo file folders which 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
- Original Caption transcribed by Joseph Upton reads, "Samarra."
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.12: Photo File 12, "Syrian Inscriptions:" Image No. 2b (Negative Number: 3197). Samarra, 1930."
- Additional information from Archives staff reads, "Prints of Neg. 3197 have been added to Photo File 22, image No. 27, as well as Photo File 12, image No. 2b."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219960274-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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