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0397 Innermost Asia : vol.2
極奥アジア : vol.2
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forms lozenge shapes within each circlet. The resulting ornamentation can be interpreted also as
a continuous band of those four-petalled clematis-like flowers which occur so constantly on the
Graeco-Buddhist relievos of Gandhāra and are frequent, too, in the wood-carvings of the Niya and
Lou-lan sites.³ Halves of the same flower are used to fill the spandrels left on the side of the jambs.
The abundant rosettes also point to lingering classical influence.

The internal arrangement of the Ming-bāshi's house is typical of all Rōshān dwellings of the
better class, and the notes taken of it, as illustrated by the rough plan and elevation in Pl. 50, may
be recorded below.⁴ The castle in which the sons or brothers of the Shughnān Mīrs, deputed
to govern Rōshān, used to reside retains its thick outer walls of rough stonework. They are
reinforced by large tree trunks set in it, after a fashion prevailing from the Indian NW. frontier
right away to the Oxus. The interior, badly decayed, showed no distinctive local features. I was
to meet there Muḥammad Ghiyāth Khān, the surviving son of the last Mīr of Shughnān, who had
escaped the year before from his family's enforced exile at Kābul and had been allowed by the
Russian political authorities to return to this part of his ancestral domain on a modest pension.
The family of the Shughnān Mīrs claim descent from a 'Shāh Khāmōsh' of Irān and are Sunnīs,
while the great majority of their old subjects belong to the Ismailia sect. The heavy features
and swarthy complexion of Muḥammad Ghiyāth Khān seemed to bear out this assertion of non-
autochthonous origin.

On September 27th I started from Kala-i-Wāmar in order to make my way towards Kara-
tegin across the easternmost valleys and ranges, once included in the principality of Darwāz ;
this since 1877 had become subject to the rule of the Amīr of Bokhāra. In view of the close approach
of the season when the high passes on the route I had planned to follow might become closed by