Hims (Syria): Shrine of Khalid Ibn al-Walid: Unidentified Plaque with Arabic Inscription, in kufic Script

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Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.3800
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 may be related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Northern Syria carried out by Ernst Herzfeld as early as 1903 and as later as 1930.

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

Place: Asia; Syria; Ḥimṣ (Syria); Syria -- Homs -- Hims

Topic: Art of the Islamic World; Archaeology; Inscriptions; Inscriptions, Arabic

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: 1903-1930

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

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.3800

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.