D-1133: Samarra, Great mosque. Floor

Object Details

Local Numbers: D-1133 FSA A.06 05.1133
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.

Place: Asia; Iraq; Mesopotamia; Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq); Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil.

Topic: Abbasids; Architectural drawing; Architecture; Art of the Islamic World; Excavations (Archaeology); Religious buildings

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: Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003. p.53, fig.29."

Scope and Contents: Additional information reads, "Abutting the center of the qibla wall, between tower 4 and 7, stretched a rectangular complex. Its ruins were investigated in early 1911 when Herzfeld cleared the area in front of what later turned out to be the back side of the miḥrāb of the congregational mosque. Of this building only the western half, situated between tower 4 and 5, was actually uncovered while the eastern half was reconstructed in Herzfeld's plan according to the results of exploration of the western side. These two wings might have flanked an open courtyard." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003; p.52-53."]; Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, Dar al-Imara, the Southern Annex Building: Ground Plan [drawing]