Object Details
- Local Numbers
- M-005 FSA A.6 06.M005
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publication, "Paikuli: Monument and Inscription of the Early History of the Sasanian Empire; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1924," and Helmut Humbach and Prods O. Skjærvø's publication, "The Sassanian Inscription of Paikuli; Supplement to Herzfeld's Paikuli. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1980."
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Paper squeezes related primarly to two expeditions to Paikuli (Iraq), in 1911 and 1913, as well an excavation campaign carried out on site by Ernst Herzfeld in 1923.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iraq
- Paikuli (Iraq)
- Topic
- Architecture
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions, Pahlavi
- Inscriptions, Parthian
- Middle Persian language
- Sassanids
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions / 6.2: Middle Persian Inscriptions
- Extent
- 1 Item (paper squeeze, b&w, 18 in.x 27 in. (46 cm. x 68.5 cm.))
- Date
- 1911-1923
- Container
- Item M-5
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 06.M005
- Type
- Archival materials
- Paper squeezes
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1924: "Paikuli: Monument and Inscription of the Early History of the Sasanian Empire; Volume II, containing 228 plates. Berlin: D. Reimer, Ernst Vohsen. Plate 125."
- Genre/Form
- Paper Squeezes
- Scope and Contents note
- Print corresponds to negative 4307.
- Scope and Contents
- - Original handwritten annotation reads, "."
- - Additional information from Ernst Herzfeld's 1924 Paikuli publication reads, "[Plate] 125. Pahlavik version A'.10 (photograph of the paper squeeze)."
- - Additional information from Joseph Upton's Finding Aid reads, "No. 5 ([neg.] 4307) Pahlavik, published in Paikuli. p.125."
- - Information from Helmut Humbach and Prods O. Skjærvø's publication reads, "The ruin of the Sassanian monument of Paikuli is situated close to the southern ascent to the [Paikuli] pass. Originally, the monument consisted of a solid square tower. Four identical colossal busts of one and the same king of kings were built into the four walls. The western wall bore a large Middle-Persian inscription (eight rows of blocks, with a total of 46 lines), whereas the eastern wall bore the Parthian version of this (seven rows, with a total of 42 lines, all of them surviving in a fragmentary state. The subject of the inscription, carefully carved and written in perspective, is the quarrel over the succession, between Narseh (293-303) and Varahrān (293). In the course of his first two expeditions, in 1911 and 1913, E. Herzfeld had discovered a total of 97 inscribed blocks (54 Middle Persian, 43 Parthian). On his last visit to Paikuli in 1923, Herzfeld excavated the site and found 30 additional blocks (20 Middle Persian, 10 Parthian), which raise the total number of surviving blocks to 133." [Helmut Humbach and Prods O. Skjærvø's publication, 1980: "The Sassanian Inscription of Paikuli; Supplement to Herzfeld's Paikuli. Wiesbaden: Reichert; pp.13-16."]
- The Sassanian Inscription of Paikuli (Iraq): Squeeze A'.10, Parthian Version
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562714161089-1562714163122-7
