A-23: Persepolis, Tachara. Three inscriptions numbered on back in red 79. For top: see N-117, p.108 and SK-IV, p.52. For bottom: see N-117, p.110 and File 33--67

Object Details

Local Numbers: A-23 FSA A.6 06.A023
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Place: Asia; Iran; Persepolis (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Tachara

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

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions / 6.1: Arabic Script

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: Papers squeezes are organized in sequential number following language scripts, which are housed in folders, and stored in metal flat files.

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

Scope and Contents: - Original handwritten annotation reads, "79."; - Additional information from Ernst Herzfeld's sketchbook, SK-V (Skizzenbuch V Persien 1923), reads, "[Page] 52. Persepolis, Tačara, W-Wand v. mitte Vorhalle, Nische."; - Additional information from Joseph Upton's Finding Aid reads, "Arabic No. 23 [no neg.] Persepolis, Tachara. Three inscriptions numbered on back in red 79. For top: see N-108, p.108 and SK-V, p.52. For bottom: see N-108, p.110 and [photo] File 33-67."; Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Squeeze of Three Arabic Inscriptions, in Kufic Script, on West Wall of Middle Portico of the Tachara (Palace of Darius)