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.
Literature
A glass negative of this image is located in the Ernst Herzfeld papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The glass negative location number is FSA A.6 04.GN.1649.
Publications
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 16 and is Figure 28.