Damascus (Syria): Great Mosque: View of Architectural Ornamentation and Arabic Inscription

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Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.3101

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

Place: Asia; Syria; Damascus (Syria); Syria -- Damascus -- Damascus

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.3101

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 16, vol. 1, image No. 79

Genre/Form: Glass negatives

Scope and Contents: - Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 16, vol. 1 reads, "Damascus. Great Mosque."; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.16: Photo File 16 (2 vols.), "Syrian Architecture," Subseries 4.16.1: vol. 1; Image No. 79 (Negative Number: 3101). Damascus, Great Mosque. Inscription and intarsia work."