Aleppo (Syria): Farafra Khanqah, Entrance Portal: View of the Vault with Muqarnas Ornamentation
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.6 04.GN.3364
- 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
- Decoration and ornament
- Religious buildings
- 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.3364
- 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.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Photo File 15, vol. 2, image No. 217
- 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 CXXXIV, a."
- Genre/Form
- Glass negatives
- Scope and Contents
- - Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 2 reads, "Khānqāh fî'l-Fārafrā. Vault of portal."
- - Publication Caption accompanying Plate CXXXIV, a reads, "Pl. CXXXIV, a. Khânqâh fi'l-Fârafrâ; voûte du portail." [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 CXXXIV, a."]
- - Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.2: vol. 2; Image No. 217 (Negative Number: 3364). Khanqah fi'l-Farafra. Vault of portal. Corpus, p1.CXXXIVa."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219966755-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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