Illustrations
Frontispiece. “Mein Zelt” (My Tent). Dr. Max Freiherr xvi von Oppenheim, Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf durch den Haurān, die Syrische Wüste und Mesopotamien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1899), vol. 1, frontispiece.
1.1 Portrait of Salomon Oppenheim jr., founder of the Oppenheim bank. Artist unknown (before 1828). Wikimedia Commons. Original in colour.
1.2 Synagogue in the Glockengasse, funded by the Oppenheim family, 1861. Lithograph by J. Hoegg from a water colour by Carl Emanuel Conrad (1810–1873). Wikimedia Commons.
1.3 Alexander Duncker, Die ländlichen Wohnsitze, Schlösser und Residenzen der Ritterschaftlichen Grundbesitzer in der Preussischen Monarchie, in naturgetreuen künstlerisch ausgeführten, farbigen Darstellungen nebst begleitendem Text (Berlin: Alexander Duncker, 1857–1883), vol. 9 (1866–1867), Plate 530. Original in colour.
2.1 “Bedouin Women.” Dr. Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf durch den Haurān, die Syrische Wüste und Mesopotamien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1899), vol. 2, facing p. 124.
2.2 “Bedouin Minstrels.” Dr. Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf durch den Haurān, die Syrische Wüste und Mesopotamien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1899), vol. 2, p. 127.
2.3 “Syrian Villagers.” Dr. Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf, vol. 1, facing p. 254. Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf. Ibid., vol. 1, facing p. 254.
5.1 Al-Ğihād—El Dschihad, Zeitung für die muhammedanischen Kriegsgefangenen (a fortnightly newspaper published in Arabic and other languages by the Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient for Muslim prisoners-of-war, beginning on 1 March, 1915), Arabic issue, no. 21, 4 November, 1915, front page. Courtesy of Staatsbibliothek, Munich (2 H. un.app. 42t). All rights reserved.
7.1 Tell Halaf. “The Pole Goddess,” excavated in 1899. Dr. Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, “Bericht über eine im Jahr 1899 ausgeführte Forschungsreise in der asiatischen Türkei,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 36, 2 (1901): 69–99. Plate 16.
7.2 Tell Halaf. “The Goddess with the Veil.” Dr. Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, “Der Tell Halaf und die verschleierte Göttin,” Der Alte Orient, 10, 1 (1908): 43. Plate 12.
7.3 Tell Halaf. “Sphinx.” Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by Z. Thomas. CC-BY-SA.
7.4 Tell Halaf. “Enthroned Goddess.” Illustrated London News, October 25, 1930, p. 707.
8.1 Façade of Aleppo National Museum, showing plaster casts of caryatids shipped to Berlin by Max von Oppenheim. Wikimedia Commons.
8.2 Illustrated London News, October 25, 1930, front page, showing caryatids from Tell Halaf in newly opened Tell Halaf Museum.
8.3 Tell Halaf. Orthostat. “Seated Figure holding a lotus flower.” New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943 (43.135.1) © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved.
8.4 Tell Halaf. Orthostat. “Lion-hunt scene.” New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943 (43.135.2) © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved.
8.5 Tell Halaf. Orthostat. “Two heroes.” Baltimore, MD, The Walters Art Museum, accession no. 21.18. © The Walters Art Museum. All Rights Reserved.
8.6 Tell Halaf. Orthostat. “Winged goddess.” Baltimore, MD, The Walters Art Museum, accession no. 21.16. © The Walters Art Museum. All Rights Reserved.
14.1 Max von Oppenheim (left) and his faithful manservant Sommer. Photograph sent at end of World War II by Oppenheim to his former collaborator Ernst Herzfeld at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © Smithsonian Institution. All Rights Reserved.
