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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
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Miscell.
antiques
from
particular
sites.
Of the collection of small Khotan antiques brought by Badruddīn Khān four sets have been
separately listed owing to the interest attaching to their alleged provenance. The stucco relief
fragments, marked as from Chalma-kazān and Kara-saï, agree very closely in character and in
their material, a peculiar hard white plaster, with the stucco remains recovered by me from these
two sites in 1908.⁷ The finely designed bronze vase (Chal. 017, Pl. X), showing low relief ornament
in Chinese style, was also said to have been obtained from Chalma-kazān. The origin of the few
miscellaneous relief fragments, &c., said to have been found at Kohmārī, the ancient sacred site
of the Gośrīṅga hill,⁸ cannot be verified in this way. But the attribution deserves nevertheless
to be specially noted, as it suggests that possibly the site retains some relics of the Buddhist convent
that Hsüan-tsang mentions as standing near its sacred cave, though on my visits in 1900 and
1908 to the Mazār that now marks the site, I failed to trace any.⁹
Finally I have deemed it advisable to keep apart the collection of miscellaneous small antiques
acquired by me at Khotan from Tokhta-ākhūn, a 'treasure-seeker' already well known to me,
as his statement that they were found by him mainly during searches of the adjoining 'Tatis' of
Arkalik and Hanguya is borne out by the general character of the objects, which agrees with that
of my own finds at Ak-terek and elsewhere in this area.¹⁰ This collection is now marked Ark.
Hang. The occurrence in it of objects undoubtedly belonging to the early Muhammadan period,
such as the inscribed bronze fragment, Ark. Hang. 048, Pl. X, and the carnelian seal, 066, and of
ceramic ware with green glaze (030, Pl. IX ; 061), is in full accord with my chronological observa-
tions regarding the 'Tatis' at and near the Ak-terek site.¹¹ At the same time some, if not most,
of the terra-cotta figurines and fragments, among which the wrestling monkeys (010, Pl. II),
the graceful miniature vase (025, Pl. XI), and the appliqué frog (031) deserve special mention,
may well have been added from Yōtkan or Tam-öghil.¹²
Remains
from
Toghrak-
mazār.
On the last day of my stay in the Khotan oasis, November 29th, I was able to examine a small
site close to the south-eastern edge of the Sampula canton and about a mile to the south-west of
Kotāz-langar (Map No. 14. A. 3). From there I had received in 1908 a few stucco relievo fragments,
evidently from a Buddhist shrine, and again during my latest visit to Khotan town some frag-
mentary leaves of paper in Brāhmī script and a variety of small remains to be noted presently.¹³
On the lowest of the narrow gravel ridges which mark where the foot of the westernmost spur
descending from the Tikelik-tāgh ends just above the cultivated area of the village of Jirak, Abbas,
one of my 'treasure-seeking' party of 1906–8, pointed out to me the spot which had yielded the
above-mentioned relics. It proved to be situated about 350 yards to the SSE. of a Ziārat, known
as Toghrak-mazār, and about 150 feet above the level of the adjoining cultivation. Small debris
of stucco, evidently from relievo decoration of walls, and of the same type as the fragments received
in 1908, showed that a small shrine similar to those found at Khādalik and Dandān-oilik had once
stood here. But it had been destroyed so completely that no trace of its walls survived. From the
plentiful reed straw and dung mixed with the tiny debris it appears probable that the ruin was at
one time used as a sheep pen. That the posts, &c., of its walls had been subsequently worked up
for use elsewhere, just as at Khādalik, was suggested by the abundance of wooden chips.
By clearing the ground about 20 yards to the south of the destroyed shrine we brought to light
a rough pottery jar, 10½ inches high, provided with two handles and closely resembling in shape
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