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.1625.
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 LIII. 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.