Aleppo (Syria): Madrasa al-Karimiyya, Entrance Portal: View of Arabic Inscription No. 173, in Naskhi Mameluke Script

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Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.3614
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The glass negative is related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.

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

Place: Asia; Syria; Aleppo (Syria)

Topic: Art of the Islamic World; Archaeology; Architecture; Decoration and ornament; Inscriptions; Inscriptions, Arabic; Religious buildings

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: 1908-1914

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

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.3614

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.

Existence and Location of Copies: Photo File 15, vol. 2, image No. 232

Bibliography: Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate CXXVI, a."

Genre/Form: Glass negatives

Scope and Contents: - Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 2 reads, "Madrasa al-Karimiyya. Portal inscription 654 H."; - Publication Caption accompanying Plate CXXVI, a reads, "Pl. CXXVI, a. Madrasa al-Kârimiyya, portail; inscription No. 167 (654)." [Herzfeld, Ernst: "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate CXXVI, a."]; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.2: vol. 2; Image No. 232 (Negative Number: 3614). Madrasa al-Karimiyya. Portal inscription 654 H. Corpus, p1.CXXVIa."