Object Details
- Local Numbers
- D-1029 FSA A.06 05.1029
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Thomas Leisten's publication, "Excavation of Samarra, vol 1."
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Drawings related primarly to the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iraq
- Mesopotamia
- Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
- Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Balkuwara
- Topic
- Abbasids
- Architectural drawing
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- 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) (74 cm. x 55 cm.)
- Date
- 1911-1913
- Container
- Item D-1029
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.1029
- 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
- Original caption reads, "Samarra Balkuwara."
- Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Balkuwara Palace, Great Iwan: Section of the Blind Niches [drawing]
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163093-6
