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Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
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of the regular 'Tati' type extending for about half a mile. Local information secured during
a night's halt there pointed to the site having been occupied by an 'old town' down to the time of
Shāh Abbas. The few specimens of glazed pottery (Pl. XVIII) and fragments of ornamented
bronze picked up here fully support this dating.³ The old name of the place was said to have
been Manijābād and to be derived from that of a daughter of Afrāsiāb.
Halt at
Bamrūd. On November 20th a march of some thirty-five miles carried us over a low barren hill range
fringing the Namak-sar depression to Bamrūd. We encountered no habitation, and only at one
place wells occasionally visited by shepherds. The small village of Bamrūd lies in a wide bare
valley which drains eastwards into a second depression holding a salt marsh near the Afghān
border. The route leading past it was in frequent use by parties of robbers from that side, and
Bamrūd was not without reason supposed to enjoy immunity from their attentions by serving as
a convenient victualling station. A band that had recently captured a large convoy of camels on
the high road between Kāin and Turbat-i-Haidarī was expected to pass very shortly on its way
back, and acting on local advice we used the protection here afforded for a day's halt.
Valley of
Tabbas. Two long marches then carried us due south through the hills of Āhingaran and Gūmeh to
the wide valley of Gezik. Of the three small villages passed on the northern slope of the range that
we crossed, that of Gūmeh was found to be occupied by people of Arab appearance and speech.
It brought home to me that my cherished Central-Asian field was now finally left behind. From
the comparatively populous village of Gezik we reached on November 24th the broad upland
valley of Tabbas-i-Mazena, which physical features and antiquarian observations combined to
invest with some interest. Barren enough the open valley looked; for whatever drainage it
receives in its upper portion disappears on the large peneplain of clay and gravel, fringed by bare
hill chains, long before the valley passes into a third desert depression, significantly named Dasht-i-
Nāumēd. Yet the water-supply obtained from an extensive system of Kārēzes had evidently
sufficed at one time to maintain cultivation over a much greater area than is now tilled by the four
hundred odd households of the Tabbas tract.
Decayed
town of
Tabbas-i-
Mazena. This was clearly proved by the size of the ruinous walled town (Fig. 451), which, as abundant
remains of crumbling dwellings all round it showed, had once formed but the nucleus of a much
larger settlement. The tiers upon tiers of small domed structures of mud bricks filling the interior
of the circumvallation were distinctly instructive from an archaeological point of view. The lower
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