Citadel of Aleppo (Syria): Tower of Sultan Sulaiman: View of Arabic Inscription, in Naskhi Ottoman Script
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.3318
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The drawings are related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Syria
- Aleppo (Syria)
- Topic
- Art of the Islamic World
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Inscriptions
- Inscriptions, Arabic
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files
- Extent
- 1 Glass negative (b&w, 13 cm. x 18 cm.)
- Date
- 1908-1914
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 04.GN.3318
- Type
- Archival materials
- Glass negatives
- 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, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate XXXII, c."
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- - Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 1 reads, "Tower of Sultan Sulaimān."
- - Publication Caption accompanying Plate XXXII. c. reads, "Pl. XXXII. c. Tour du Sultan Sulaimân; inscription No 56 (928)." [Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate XXXII, c."]
- - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.1: vol. 1; Image No. 40 (Negative Number: 3318). Tower of Sultan Sulaiman, Tower A. Corpus, p1.XXXIIc."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219960288-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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