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Ernst Herzfeld Resource Bibliography Ernst Herzfeld papers A bibliography of sources consulted in the cataloging of the Herzfeld materials. This list is by no means exhaustive; if your institution holds related materials, please contact the Freer|Sackler Archives at [email protected] or 202-633-0533. Books and Articles Gunter, Ann C., and Stefan R. Hauser. Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Boston: Brill, 2005. Herzfeld, Ernst. Ausgrabungen von Samarra, Band I, Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und Seine Ornamentik. Berlin: Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1923. Herzfeld, Ernst. Ausgrabungen von Samarra, Band III, Die Malereien von Samarra. Berlin: Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1927. Herzfeld, Ernst. Ausgrabungen von Samarra, Band V, Die Vorgeschichtlichen Töpfereien von Samarra. Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1930. Herzfeld, Ernst. Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, Band VI, Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg: Verlag von Eckardt & Messtorff, 1948. Herzfeld, Ernst. Erster Vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Samarra. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1912. Herzfeld, Ernst. Samarra, Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen zur Islamischen Archaeologie. Berlin: Behrend & Co, 1907. Lamm, Carl Johan. Ausgrabungen von Samarra IV, Das Glas von Samarra. Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1928. Leisten, Thomas. Excavation of Samarra, Volume 1, Architecture: final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2003. Northedge, Alastair. "An Interpretation of the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dar Al-Khilafa or Jawsaq Al-Khaqani).” Ars Orientalis, 23 (1993): 143-170. 1 Sarre, Fredrick. Ausgrabungen von Samarra, Band II, Die Keramik von Samarra. Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1925. Online Resources Archnet Digital Library http://archnet.org/library/sites/sites.jsp?country_code=iq Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Creswell Archive http://creswell.ashmolean.museum/ Ernst-Herzfeld Society Germany http://www.ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.de/ Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/index.php The Samarra Archaeological Survey A. Northedge http://www.dur.ac.uk/derek.kennet/samarra.htm Museum Databases British Museum Collections Database: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx Louvre database: http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=crt_frm_rs&langue=en&initCritere=true Metropolitan Museum Collection Database: http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/crdhome.aspx Victoria & Albert Museum database: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ Victoria & Albert, Samarra Finds: http://www.samarrafinds.info/infoEN/samarrafinds/index.htm 2 Squeezes: Further Reading and Online Resources Naqsh-i Rustam Huyse, Philip. “Die dreisprachige Inschrift Sabuhrs I an der Ka’ba-I Zardusht (SKZ).” Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999. Musche, Birgit. “Überlegungen zur Architektur der achaemenidischen Felsengräber von Naqs-e Rostam.” Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 38: 325-345. Nagel, Alexander and Rassaz, Hassan. "Colouring the Dead: New Investigations on the History and the Polychrome Appearance of the Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rostam, Fars," In: Death, Burial and the Transition to the afterlife in Arabia and adjacent regions. Proceedings from the conference in the British Museum, London, November 27th -29th 2008, edited by Lloyd Weeks. 303-12. Walnut Creek: Left Coast, 2010. Sarre, Friedrich and Ernst Herzfeld. Iranische Felsreliefs. Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen von Denkmaelern aus alt- und mittelpersischer Zeit. Berlin: Reimer, 1910. Schmidt, Erich. Persepolis. Vol. III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments. Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications, 1970. Schmitt, Ruediger. “The Old Persian inscriptions of Naqsh-i Rustam and Persepolis.” Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2000. The Sasanian Rock Reliefs at Naqsh-i-Rustam in the Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/persepolis/rock_reliefs.html Paikuli Herzfeld, Ernst. Die Aufnahme des sasanidischen Denkmals von Paikuli. Berlin: Reimer, 1914. Herzfeld, Ernst. Paikuli, monument and inscription of the early history of the Sasanian Empire. 2 Vols. Berlin: Reimer, 1924. Humbach, Helmut. “Friedrich Carl Andreas and the Paikuli inscription.” Münchner Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 41 (1982): 119-25. Skjærvø, Prods O. and Helmut Humbach. The Sassanian Inscription of Paikuli. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1983 (on-line available at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/Paikuli.pdf) Weber, Ursula. "Wahram III., Koenig der Koenige von Eran und Aneran," Iranica Antiqua 44 3 (2009): 353-394. http://www.paikuli.org/ (Italian project intending to produce a detailed plan, a survey of the rise and a graphic and photographic documentation of all the architectural elements preserved, screening on the degradation of the stone will propose measures to halt, establish conservation, with the possibility of a reconstruction of part of the wall of blocks bearing the inscription inside the Museum of Sulaimaniyya). Pasargadae Calmeyer, Peter. “Figuerliche Fragmente aus Pasargadae nach Zeichnungen E. Herzfelds.” Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 14 (1981): 27-44. Herzfeld, Ernst. "Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Pasargadae 1928," Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 1 (1929-30): 4-16. Herzfeld, Ernst Pasargadae. Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen zur persischen Archäologie. Berlin. Diss., 1907. Herzfeld, Ernst. "Pasargadae. Untersuchungen zur persischen Archäologie," Klio 8 (1908): 1-68. Nylander, Carl. Ionians in Pasargadae. Upsala: Universitetsbibliotek, 1970. Stronach, David. "Herzfeld in Pasargadae." Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Edited by Ann Gunter and Stefan Hauser, 103-135. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Stronach, David. Pasargadae: A Report on the Excavations Conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978. Persepolis Dusinberre, Elsbeth. “Herzfeld in Persepolis.” Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Edited by Ann Gunter and Stefan Hauser, 137-80. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Herzfeld, Ernst. "Rapport sur l'état actuel des ruines de Pérsepolis et propositions pour leur conservation." Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 1 (1929-30): 17-64. Medes and Persians: Reflections on elusive empires, ed. Margaret Cool Root: 209-251. Mousavi, Ali. "Persepolis in Retrospect: Histories of Discovery and Archaeological Exploration at 4 the Ruins of Ancient Parseh," Ars Orientalis 32 (2002): Medes and Persians: Reflections on elusive empires, ed. Margaret Cool Root: 209-251. Schmidt, Erich. Persepolis, Vol. I: Structures, Reliefs, Inscriptions. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications, 1953. Taq-i Bustan Tanabe, Katsumi. The Identification of the King of Kings in the upper register of the Larger Grotte, Taq-i Bustan: Ardashir III Restated. Ērān ud Anērān. Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, 2003: http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/tanabe.html 5 .
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