Object Details
- Local Numbers
- D-1183 FSA A.06 05.1183
- 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 Pasargadae in November 1905 while on an expedition from Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) to Shiraz (Iran). In mid-November 1923, he conducted a preleminary campaign, completing various measured plans and drawings. Finally, a four-week session of excavations in April and May 1928, funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, was carried out by Ernst Herzfeld, assisted by the architect Friedrich Krefter.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iran
- Pasargadae (Extinct city)
- Iran -- Fars -- Pasargadae
- Topic
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Architectural drawing
- Architecture
- Decoration and ornament
- 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) (22.7 cm. x 29.9 cm.)
- Date
- 1905-1928
- Container
- Item D-1183
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.1183
- 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
- - Handwritten captions in German, probably by Ernst Herzfeld, reads, "Pasargadae, genius."
- - Handwritten number, probably by Joseph Upton, reads, "D-1183."
- Excavation of Pasargadae (Iran): Gate R (Gate House, Palace with the Relief): Detail of Fragments Belonging to Bas-relief Depicting Four-Winged Figure (Genius) and Lamassu [drawing]
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163107-2
