D-955: Miscellaneous ornaments from Taq-i Bustan and Bistun
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- D-955 FSA A.06 05.0955
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld original drawings'caption and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Taq-i Bustan (Iran) in early August 1913 while on an expedition from Samarra (Iraq) to Asadabad (Hamadan, Iran). The drawing may be related primarly to this expedition as well as to additional visits to Taq-i Bustan (Iran) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1917 and 1923 (end of June).
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)
- Bisutun Site (Iran)
- Iran -- Kermanshah -- Bisutun
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Archaeology
- Architectural drawing
- Decoration and ornament
- Relief (Sculpture)
- Sassanids
- 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) (30 cm. x 22.6 cm.)
- Date
- 1913-1923
- Container
- Item D-955
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.0955
- 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
- Taq-i Bustan (Iran), Taq-i Girra (Iran), and Bisutun Site (Iran): Various Vegetal Ornaments [drawing]
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163086-7
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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