Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Architectural Studies 6
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: S-26

 FSA A.06 07.26
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
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 (46 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 07.26
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 fifteenth 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 6."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 1 reads, "--."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 2 and 3 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Great Courtyard, wall of mud brick with arched niches and stucco moldings]; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 4 reads, "--."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 5 and 6 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, square sunken basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 7 and 8 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, surface entrance]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 9 and 10 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, circular hall]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, transverse halls flanked by two rooms with niches]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 11 and 12 reads, "--; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, room with niche flanking the transverse halls]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 13 and 14 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Rotundabau, dependencies]; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 15 and 16 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 17 and 18 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Small Serdab, lower level]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 19 and 20 reads, "--; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 21 and 22 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Pavilion]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, North Pavilion]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 23 and 24 reads, "--; [Topographical measurements of unidentified location]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 25 and 26 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Western Garden, south of the square ornamental pool]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Western Garden, south of the monumental steps]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 27 and 28 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, south of the square ornamental pool]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 29 and 30 reads, "."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 31 and 32 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, elevated belvedere, known as al-Hammam, located northwest of the square-reception hall]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 33 and 34 reads, "--; --."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 35 and 36 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, courtyard building with central circular basin]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, Square Reception-Hall Block, rooms east of courtyard with central circular basin]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 37 and 38 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, courtyard north of square reception-hall block]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, buildings in courtyard north of square reception-hall block]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 39 and 40 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, courtyard south of the barracks of the palace guards]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, buildings in courtyard located between the Large Serdab and the North Palace]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 41 and 42 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, northwest corner of the palace complex, barracks of the palace guards]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, northwest corner of the palace complex, barracks of the palace guards]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 43 and 44 reads, "[Dār al-Khilāfa, North Palace, reception-hall block on raised terrace]; [Dār al-Khilāfa, small buildings on the north end of the western garden]."
label: Scope and Contents
content: - Original handwritten notes for pg. 45 and 46 reads, "--; --."