Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 7
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: S-27

 FSA A.06 07.27
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.
label: Funding note
content: Funded by
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
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content: Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions / S-26--28: "Samarra Planaufnahme 6--8"
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume (Sketchbook (41 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 07.27
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 sixteenth 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 7."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south side of the palace complex]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south side of the palace complex]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, south side of the palace complex]; --; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 and 5 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, directly south of the square reception-hall block]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, directly south of the square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 6 and 7 reads, "--; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 8 and 9 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, sketch of the five halls situated after the Bāb al-ʿĀmma]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 10 and 11 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, courtyard with basin and cruciform plan of a dome chamber]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, room identified as a harīm and square room with circular basin which was named Kāsat-i Firʿawn]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 12 and 13 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 14 and 15 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Large Serdab]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 16 and 17 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, courtyard with rooms around]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 18 and 19 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, residential buildings]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 20 and 21 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, residential buildings]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, two further buildings on the northeast end of the complex]"
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 22 and 23 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, residential buildings]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Stables and North Pavilion, exterior wall with round buttresses]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 24 and 25 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab and courtyards with stables]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 26 and 27 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, stores and service buildings]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 28 and 29 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south side of the complex, passageway into the palace complex]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 30 and 31 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south side of the palace complex, passageway into the palace complex]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 32 and 33 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Large Serdab, Mesopotamian building type]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 34 and 35 reads, "--; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 36 and 37 reads, "[Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, basin of the Kāsat-i Firʿawn and fondation trenches of its pavilion]; [Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, buildings included in the ziyāda]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 38 and 39 reads, "[Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, northwest quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda]; [Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, northeast quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 40 and 41 reads, "[Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, southeast quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda]; [Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, southwest quadrant of the mosque and ziyāda]."