D-852: Persepolis. Isometric drawing, section of terrace wall and Tachara, numbered 3

Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Apadana: Isometric Plan of the Northwest Corner [drawing]

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Local Numbers: D-852 FSA A.06 05.0852
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Ernst Herzfeld first visited Persepolis in November 1905 during his expedition return from the Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) excavation. During the two last months of 1923 as well as early March 1924, He spent six weeks on the terrace of Persepolis, drafting a plan and providing a photographic record of the whole structure. In 1928, the architect Friedrich Krefter joined Herzfeld in Persia, in an expedition funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, to complete various measured plans and drawings in Persepolis. Excavations were begun on March 1, 1931, now under the auspices of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Ernst Herzfeld left Persepolis permanently in Spring 1934.

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

Place: Asia; Iran; Persepolis (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Apadana

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Excavations (Archaeology); Architectural drawing; Architecture

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps

Extent: 1 Drawings (visual works) (101.5 cm. x 72.6 cm.)

Date: 1923-1934

Container: Item D-852

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

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.0852

Type: Archival materials; Drawings (visual works); Drawings

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: Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form: Drawings

Scope and Contents: - Handwritten number on recto reads, "3."; - Handwritten annotation by Joseph Upton reads, "D-852."; - Additional information from staff reads, "Appears to be a section of a larger plan."; - Glass plate in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 04.GN.0273; FSA A.6 04.GN.1594].; - Drawing in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 05.0878].; - Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: SK-5, p.48, 49.; Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Apadana: Isometric Plan of the Northwest Corner [drawing]