Excavation of Pasargadae (Iran): Palace 'S': Stone Fragments from Column Base and Possibly Depicting Human Ear

Object Details

Local Numbers: FSA A.6 04.GN.0455
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble,FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Ernst Herzfeld first visited the site of Pasargadae in November 1905 while on an expedition from Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) to Shiraz (Iran). In mid-November 1923, he conducted a preleminary campaign, completing various measured plans and drawings. Finally, a four-week session of excavations in April and May 1928, funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, was carried out by Ernst Herzfeld, assisted by the architect Friedrich Krefter.

Place: Asia; Iran; Pasargadae (Extinct city); Iran -- Fars -- Pasargadae -- Palace S

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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: - Glass Negatives, chronogically numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Scope and Contents: - Finds Journal from the Excavation of Pasargadae in 1928, (N-92), in Ernst Herzfeld Papers: [Pasargadae Find Object Number 26].; - Handwritten notes on related blueprint reads, "Pasargadae: sculptor's model of ear; fragment of column base."; - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.2: Photo File 2 (2Vols.). 'Pre-Achaemenian.' Subseries 4.2.2: vol. 2, No. 131 (Negative Number: 455). Pasargadae, sculptor's model of ear; fragment of column base."