D-620: Persepolis, prehistoric pottery reconstruction. Conical ware with meander design. IAE, p1.X, center

Object Details

Local Numbers: D-620 FSA A.06 05.0620
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld original drawings'caption and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Drawing related to a trial excavation undertook by Ernst Herzfeld in the Summer 1928 as well as a campaign of excavation at the western mound, Tall-i-Bakun A under the auspice of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, carried out by Alexander Langsdorff under Ernst Herzfeld's direction between March 25, 1932 and July 21, 1932.

Place: Asia; Iran; Bakun, Tall-e (Iran); Iran -- Fars -- Takht-e Jamshid -- Tal-i Bakun

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Antiquities; Architectural drawing; Pottery; Decoration and ornament; Excavations (Archaeology)

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps

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: Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.

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

Bibliography: Herzfeld, Ernst. "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press, 1941, pl.X, center."

Scope and Contents: Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Reconstruction of Pottery with Painted Patterns: Conical Ware with Intricate Ornaments, from Prehistoric Mound of Tal-i Bakun (PPA) [drawing]