Palmyra (Syria): View of Paper Squeeze of Inscription in the Palmyrene Dialect of Aramaic (Syriac Script)

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.3612
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Glass negative related primarly to an expedition to Palmyra (Syria), carried out by Moritz Sobernheim in 1899, when he photographed and made squeezes of some of the inscriptions. A few years later, while in Berlin, Ernst Herzfeld collaborated with M. Sobernheim by drafting architectural plans for the 1905 expedition to Baalbeck. At that time, He might have gained access to the squeezes of the Palmyrene inscriptions that are the subject of this series of glass negatives."

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Archaeology; Inscriptions; Inscriptions, Aramaic

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 accompanying related print in photo file 12 reads, "Samaria."; Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.12: Photo File 12, "Syrian Inscriptions:" Image No. 74 (Negative Number: 3612). Samaria, squeeze of inscription. Syriac."