Between 26 November to 23 December 1923, and 2 March to 15 March 1924, Herzfeld spent six weeks on the terrace of Persepolis, where he drafted a plan of the structure and provided a photographic record of the site. This gelatin silver print forms part of this photographic record.
Publications
This image is reproduced in the book “Ernst E. Herzfeld, Iran, In the Ancient East” which itself was a presentation of lectures delivered in Boston during October and November 1936 by Herzfeld. The image is located on plate LV. The book was first published in 1941 by Oxford University Press, New York and was later re-printed in 1988 by Hacker Art Books, Inc., New York.
This image is reproduced in a report by Ernst Herzfeld published in 1928 by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin entitled "Rapport sur l'état actuel des ruines de Persépolis et propositions pour leur conservation.” The image is located on Page 17 and is Figure 34.