D-856: Persepolis. Reconstruction of entry gate. Krefter, 1934. IAE, pl.LI
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- D-856 FSA A.06 05.0856
- 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
- Drawing paper related primarly to the excavation of Persepolis, initiated by Ernst Herzfeld in early March 1931, under the auspices of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Herzfeld left Persepolis permanently in Spring 1934.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Krefter, Friedrich, 1898-1995
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Persepolis (Iran)
- Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Gate of All Lands
- Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Great Stairway
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Architectural drawing
- Architecture
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- 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
- 1934
- Container
- Item D-856
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.0856
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst. "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. Pl.LI."
- Genre/Form
- Drawings
- Scope and Contents
- - Glass plate in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 04.GN.1582; FSA A.6 04.GN.1583].
- - Drawing in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [FSA A.6 05.0848; FSA A.6 05.0871; FSA A.6 05.0882].
- - Sketchbook in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: SK-5, p.40, 41; SK-21, p.1.
- - Handwritten annotation by Joseph Upton reads, "D-856."
- Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Reconstruction of the Gate of All Lands and the Great Stairway to the Terrace Complex, drawn by Friedrich Krefter, [drawing]
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163078-7
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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