Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948)
1908-1914
Synagogue, corridor [Aleppo, Syria]
Photographic print
6 x 10.5 cm
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery ArchivesLocal numbers: Item Print 96-2 FSA A.06 04.15.3.237, Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946, Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 04.15.3.237
Handwritten caption accompanying Print 96-2 reads "Aleppo. Synagogue. Film 5166."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.3: vol. 3; Item Print 96-2 Synagogue, corridor Print corresponds to negative number 5166."
Aleppo: Great Synagogue, interior [graphic]
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.
LL/113638