D-1107: Samarra. Part of Kufic list of Imams. Location not given

Object Details

Local Numbers: D-1107 FSA A.06 05.1107
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 related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.

Place: Asia; Iraq; Mesopotamia; Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq); Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.

Topic: Abbasids; Architectural drawing; Architecture; Art of the Islamic World; Excavations (Archaeology); Inscriptions; Inscriptions, Arabic

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

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

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, 1948: "Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg, Eckardt & Messtorff; Buchhändlerischer Vertrieb durch D. Reimer, Andrews & Steiner, Berlin, 1948; p.288, abb. 37."

Scope and Contents: Original publication caption reads: "In der Kammer der ghaiba, auf drei Seiten, wie ein Gesims zwischen der modernen Kachelverkleidung der Wände und der Wölbung, 1,5 und 1,8 und 1,5m., Buchstabenhöhe 4,5 cm., einfaches Kufi."; Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Ghaibat al-Mahdi: Arabic Inscription, in Kufic Script [drawing]