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Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 3: Notebooks; Stamp Seals with Various Inscriptions (N-4)

National Museum of Asian Art

Object Details

Local Numbers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers; N-4 FSA A.6 03.004
General
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Creator
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Names
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Collection Creator
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Place
Asia
Iran
Topic
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Antiquities
Archaeology
Cuneiform inscriptions
Inscriptions
Inscriptions, Arabic
Inscriptions, Aramaic
Inscriptions, Pahlavi
Middle Persian language
Seals (Numismatics)
Creator
Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 3: Notebooks
Extent
1 Notebook (57 pages, 12.2 cm. x 8 cm.)
Date
1904-1946
Archival Repository
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Identifier
FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 03.004
Type
Archival materials
Notebooks
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
In the original arrangement of the Ernst Herzfeld Archive, Notebooks were included in a larger body of diverse material acknowledged by Ernst Herzfeld as his study collection. In the early 1970s, Joseph Upton, for research purpose, rearranged the collection and created a specific series (Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 3: Notebooks, 1904-1946, 1957, n.d.) for 131 notebooks, including four ledgers and eight travel journals. Upton has given this notebook an accession number, N-4, related to the series he created for the notebooks, probably following Herzfeld's original organization.
Collection Rights
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form
Notebooks
Scope and Contents
- Handwritten caption, in pencil (probably by joseph Upton), on front cover reads: "Seals."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 1 reads, "Pahlavi inscriptions on Sasanian seal-stones."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 2 reads, "Kufic inscriptions."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 3 reads, "Cuneiform inscription on green, flecked stone, British Museum."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 4 to 9 reads, "Miscellaneous stamp seals."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 10 reads, "Hebrew (Aramaic ?) inscription on stone fragment."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 11 reads, "Greek inscription on carnelian."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 12 reads, "Aramaic (?) inscription."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 13 reads, "Arabic inscribed ring."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 14 and 15 reads, "Stamp seals."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 16 reads, "Fragment of Aramaic (?) inscription."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 17 reads, "Hebrew inscription on roll seal."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 18 and 19 reads, "Cuneiform fragments."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 20 to 22 reads, "Sasanian stamp seals."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 23 and 24 reads, "Monograms on Sasanian seals."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 25 reads, "Pahlavi inscription on seal-stone."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 26 reads, "Seal of Atūr-Ormizd."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, p. 27 reads, "Seal of Atūr Ardashīr."
- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-4, pp. 28 to 57 reads, "Pahlavi inscriptions on Sasanian seals with notes on material of each seal-stone."
Collection Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1585219957152-1585219958693-3
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3910cff88-c1cf-4c6c-b210-eaa5008dbdb2

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