“Ernst Herzfeld first visited Naqsh-i Rustam in November 1905 during his expedition return from the Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) excavation. During the two last months of 1923 as well as early March 1924, in addition of his work on the terrace of Persepolis, Herzfeld spent time at Naqsh-i Rustam checking the inscriptions. In 1928, the architect Friedrich Krefter joined Herzfeld in Persia, in an expedition funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, to complete various measured plans and drawings in Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Naqsh-i Rustam.” Source: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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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 CXXV. 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.