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Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.2 | |
1899-1902年の中央アジア旅行における科学的成果 : vol.2 |
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インパン出土の陶製壺。CLAY POT FROM JING-PEN. | |
インパンの遺跡RUIN AT JING-PEN. |
32 THE KURUK-TAGH AND THE KURUK-DARJA.
usual Mohamedan shape, likewise made of sun-dried
I `;\\"s111' ,, clay, of the same kind as that common throughout
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,, ~ the locality. The mountain torrents have within recent
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~~\`)),",~le an extent that it has washed away a portion of the
/aml~„ \\4_ ~. ghuristan, so that the interior of some of the graves
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are now half exposed. A corpse, apparently that of a 15 year-old Mohammedan youth, which had recently fallen out, lay in the bed of the gully. The short hair, teeth, ears, and hands were fairly well preserved, the
skin hung about the skeleton like parchment, a piece of cloth was
bound round the head, the feet only were missing. The skull was of
the Mussulman shape. My native guides had no hesitation whatever
in recognising this ghuristan as a Mohammedan burial-place; indeed 1
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the position of the graves left no room whatever for doubt. I would not venture to determine its age; but it can hardly date back very Fig. 31. CLAY POT far, at a guess say 150 to 200 years. Were it older than that the FROM JING-PEN. skeleton which I have just described would not have been so well
preserved, but would undoubtedly have crumbled to pieces and the bones would have been bleached. Close beside the burial-place was a clay structure which may possibly have been a mäsischii, a chaneka, or a burial monument placed over the grave of some distinguished person. It consisted of three walls without a roof; the fourth wall, which stood on the verge of the gully, had evidently been washed away. The clay walls had been built up round a framework of posts and beams, imparting to it
Fig. 3o b.
Fig. 32. RUIN AT JING-I'EN.
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