S-31: "Samarra, Geschichtliches"
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
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content: Ernst Herzfeld Papers
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content: Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions
container: label: Container
content: Volume S-31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Miscellaneous material including:

a: a letter to van Berchem (November 10, 1911) enclosing a copy of an inscription at Imam Dur with Herzfeld's reading and related material;

b: a letter to Geheimrat Ed. Meyer discussing the wall and moat at Samarra;

c: a discussion of the Arabic measurement "ell" inresponse to an article by C. A. Nallino, Turin, 1893;

d: a letter to Dr. Becker, Hamburg, March 15, 1913, describing revolutionary activities of Persians in Baghdad and Anglo-Russian activities in Persia with comments on the Young Turks and the Persian Prince, Salar ad-dauleh;

e: a letter to Dr. Becker, December 21, 1910, regarding fragments of papyrus with Arabic inscriptions found at Samarra, together with pertinent photographs and sketches;

f: miscellaneous inscriptional material from Samarra and a plan of the Shiite sanctuary in 1911 with the inscriptions of the sardāb of the Mahdi;

g: clippings from German newspapers regarding the excavations at Samarra;

h: miscellaneous note, including two letters from Pere Anastase about changes in the Arabic readings in a publication by Massignon and concerning the cupola at Salman Pak; a note on the Arabic musical scale; and one on Gertrude Bell's publication, Ukhaidir