Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers; SK-35 FSA A.06 02.35
- Former Title or Title Variations
- Ernst Herzeld; Skizzenbuch XXXV: 4 Homs
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Herzfeld's original sketchbook captions and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
- 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 drawings are 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
- Ḥamāh (Syria)
- Ḥimṣ (Syria)
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Architectural drawing
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- Decoration and ornament
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions, Arabic
- Religious buildings
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 2: Sketchbooks / 2.15: 4 Homs
- Extent
- 1 Volume (Sketchbook (9 pages), 11.8 cm. x 25.1 cm.)
- Date
- undated
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, File FSA A.06 02.35
- Type
- Archival materials
- Volumes
- Sketchbooks
- Drawings
- Sketches
- 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
- Sketchbooks, housed in document boxes and stored on shelves, are organized by Joseph Upton into 13 subject categories.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Sketchbooks
- Drawings
- Sketches
- Scope and Contents
- - SK-35 is the the thirty-fifth of a series of thirty-five sketchbooks (Skizzenbücher), in which Ernst Herzfeld recorded his observations on inscriptions, archaeological remains, architecture, and decorative motifs related to Hama (Syria) and Hims (Syria), .
- - Original handwritten title on cover reads: "Ernst Herzfeld; Skizzenbuch XXXV: 4 Homs"
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 1 reads, "Hims (Syria), left) transcription of Arabic inscription in Shrine of Khaled Ibn al-Walid, [see FSA A.6 05.1361; FSA A.6 05.1364]; right) notes on mihrab and minbar of Great Mosque of Nur al-Din, [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3726]."
- - In Finding Aid, captions for pg. 2, 3 and 4 reads, "Hims (Syria), Great Mosque of Nur al-Din: measured plan and elevation."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 4 reads, "Hims (Syria): inscribed basalt block; plan and notes of tomb."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 5 reads, "Hims (Syria): top left) private house: Arabic inscription and drawing of affronted lions in sculpture; top right) sketch of blason in Mardawiya Convent, [see FSA A.6 05.0259]; bottom left) cartouche with inscription in Citadelle, [see FSA A.6 05.1361]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 6 reads, "Hims (Syria), Great Mosque of Nur al-Din: measured plan and elevation of basalt capital."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 7 reads, "Hims (Syria), Djami Kabir: carved decoration."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 8 reads, "Hama (Syria), [Nur al-Din Mosque]: frame of inscription of Nur al-Din, [inscribed on the outside of the north wall, [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3282]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 9 reads, "Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: sketch plan and elevation of tomb chamber [with wooden sarcophagus], [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3104]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 10 reads, "Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: plan, Haram, tomb."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 11 reads, "Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: plan, inscription on minbar, [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3112; FSA A.6 04.GN.3117]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 12 reads, "Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: plan of east hall."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 13 reads, "Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: plan west wall, cartouche."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 14 reads, "left) Hama (Syria), Great Mosque: elevation; right) Hims (Syria), Great Mosque of Nur al-Din, in courtyard: plaque and stone inscribed with Arabic inscription, [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3719; FSA A.6 04.GN.3798; FSA A.6 04.GN.3301]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 15 reads, "Hims (Syria), [Shrine of Khalid Ibn al-Walid]: elevation of sarcophagus of Fuddah [(cenotaph of Fada)], [see FSA A.6 05.0335], [see FSA A.6 04.GN.3253; FSA A.6 04.GN.3255; FSA A.6 04.GN.3301]."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 16 reads, "Hama (Syria), Arabic inscription."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 17 reads, "Hama (Syria), Mawlawiyya: elevation of portal."
- - In Finding Aid, caption for pg. 18 reads, "Hama (Syria), Mawlawiyya: plan."
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 2: Sketchbooks; Sketchbook 35, Hims
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714162014-2
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