D-1234: Samarra, painted design on wood; water-color. Samarra, vol.I, p1.XLII, top

Object Details

Local Numbers: S-11 D-1234 FSA A.06 07.11.01 FSA A.06 05.1234
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive and Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.; - Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Notes related primarly to the two campaigns of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin between the years 1911 and 1913.

Place: Asia; Iraq; Mesopotamia; Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq); Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra

Topic: Abbasids; Antiquities; Architecture; Art of the Islamic World; Decoration and ornament; Find Objects -- Samarra; Excavations (Archaeology)

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: - S-11 is organized into 37 subdivisions which include one or several items of original materials.; - Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Existence and Location of Copies: - Sketch numbered IN-874; reproduced from Sketchbook FSA A.6 S19, p. 44 and 45.; - Drawing numbered IN-874; reproduced from Sketchbook FSA A.6 S30-02, item 'z'.; - Illustration numbered Abb. 108. Orn. 110; reproduced in "Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923: Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik. Berlin, D. Reimer. p.77, abb. 108."; - Illustration numbered Orn. 110; reproduced in "Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923: Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik. Berlin, D. Reimer. Plate XLII."; - Print numbered IN-874; reproduced from photographic file 4.19. papers 3, p. 46.; - Print numbered IN-874; reproduced from photographic file 4.22. papers 2, p. [22-9], 35.

Scope and Contents: - Original publication caption in German reads: "110. Holz IN-874; am quadratischen Hof hinter den Vorsälen des Djausaq."; - Translated publication caption reads: "[Ornament] 110. Wood IN-874 (Inventory Number 874); in Palace of the Caliph (Dār al-Khilāfa, Jawsaq al-Khāqāni, Bayt al-Khalīfah), inside the Square Reception-hall Block, Courtyard with Basin and Bath."; Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Typological Study of Painted Decoration on Wood [drawing]