Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 8
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: S-28

 FSA A.06 07.28
label: General
content: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
label: General
content: - Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."
label: General
content: - Since these are primary sources, handwritten captions in the sketchbook are specified in three stages: (1) an English designation following Thomas Leisten and Alastair Northedge's terminology; (2) the transcribed original caption in German which is provided under parenthesis; and (3) additonal information from Herzfeld's publication, "Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und Seine Ornamentik. Verlag Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin, 1923." and Alastair Northedge's publication, "An Interpretation of the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dar Al-Khilafa or Jawsaq Al-Khaqani). In Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23. Gülru Necipoglu, ed. Ann Arbour: Department of History, University of Michigan, 1993." which is provided under bracket.
label: Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
content: 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.
name: label: Creator
content: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
label: Names
content: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
label: Collection Creator
content: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
place: label: Place
content: Asia
label: Place
content: Iraq
label: Place
content: Mesopotamia
label: Place
content: Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
label: Place
content: Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra
topic: label: Topic
content: Abbasids
label: Topic
content: Architectural drawing
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Art of the Islamic World
label: Topic
content: Decoration and ornament
label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Relief (Sculpture)
label: Topic
content: Religious buildings
creator: label: Creator
content: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ernst Herzfeld Papers
label: See more items in
content: Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-26--28: "Samarra Planaufnahme 6--8"
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume (Sketchbook (47 pages), 12.8 cm. x 25.7 cm.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 07.28
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Sketches
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Journals, letters, and sketchbooks are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketches
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: - The seventeenth of a series of eighteen sketchbooks (Skizzenbücher), in which Ernst Herzfeld recorded his observations on topography, landscape, archaeological remains, architecture, artifacts and decorative motifs, related to the second campaign of excavations at the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dār al-Khilāfa, Jawsaq al-Khāqāni, Bayt al-Khalīfah) including the western garden, the Bāb al-ʿĀmma and the square reception-hall block, the great courtyard (Great Esplanade), the south side of the complex, the Large Serdab, the Rotundabau, the east end and the Small Serdab, the stable and pavilions, the barracks, Al-Hamman, and finally the north palace.
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten caption on cover reads, "Samarra ; plan aufnahmen 8."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 and 5 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 6 and 7 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, part of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 8 and 9 reads, "--; --; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 10 and 11 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 12 and 13 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 14 and 15 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms next to courtyard with basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms between courtyard with basin and cruciform plan of dome chamber]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 16 and 17 reads, "--."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 18 and 19 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the north side of courtyard with basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, bath on the south side of courtyard with basin]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 20 and 21 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of courtyard with basin and bath]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 22 and 23 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, square room with circular basin which was named Kāsat-i Firʿawn]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, room identified as a harīm]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 24 and 25 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the southwest side of the square room with circular basin which was named Kāsat-i Firʿawn]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 26 and 27 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 28 and 29 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 30 and 31 reads, "--."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 32 and 33 reads, "--; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 34 and 35 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms on the east side of the room identified as a harīm]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of the transversal hall between dome chamber and great courtyard]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 36 and 37 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of the transversal hall between dome chamber and great courtyard as well as a warren of small rooms east of the harīm]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 38 and 39 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 40 and 41 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, fountain at the central point of the dome chamber with cruciform plan]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 42 and 43 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, plan of room identified as a harīm]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of a dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 44 and 45 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 46 and 47 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, cruciform plan of dome chamber inside the square reception-hall block]; --."