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極奥アジア : vol.2

structures within this circumvallation, are of great size, from 22″ to about 17″ long, 15″ to 12″ wide,
and of an average of 4–5″ in thickness. The main lower gate appears to have stood near the south-
eastern corner (Fig. 459), where two towers, one octagonal and another round and very slender,
were evidently intended for its protection.

Ruined
quarters on
lower slope. Within this wall the lower slope on the south is covered with remains of vaulted rooms and
passages, occupying irregular terraces and often apparently built in tiers. Debris and refuse here
fill the lower rooms, many of which were probably abandoned while the place was still occupied,
as described in the case of Tabbas-i-Mazena. A little experimental digging in one place showed
that, under a surface crust of hard salt-permeated clay, midden refuse was still well preserved.
From the first I was struck by the abundance of potsherds showing fine red clay and a make
greatly superior to the present ware of the country. Most common among these were pieces of
terra-cotta-like quality with the outside surface ribbed in neat regular bands, of the type shown
by the specimens Gha. 02, 7, 8 (Pl. CXV).⁴

Ascent to
high terrace
and gate-
way. Through this agglomeration of ruined quarters of a humbler sort a still recognizable roadway
winds up to the foot of a high wall supporting a terrace (Fig. 460). Behind this very massive
wall the terrace rested on vaulted rooms probably in several stories ; all of these appear to have
fallen in long ago, as shown by hollows on the top. The road ascending along the foot of the
terrace passes through a narrow gateway into a kind of outer court enclosed by comparatively
well preserved vaulted structures. The vaults here are constructed with those slanting arches of
brickwork which are still ordinarily used in Sīstān for spanning rooms of moderate size without
the use of any centering. From this court the road turns back along the top of the terrace, some
40 yards long, until it reaches near its western corner the imposing arched gateway seen in Fig. 465.
This appears to have been surmounted by battlements, and is flanked above by narrow openings,
which seem as if intended for use as a kind of machicolation. To a small vaulted passage, i, built
against the wall to the left of the gate I shall have to return farther on in connexion with an inter-
esting discovery made there.

Vaulted
entrance
hall. Through this gate access lies into an open inner court, measuring about 24½ feet by 14½, and
from this through a passage into a vaulted entrance hall. As this is better preserved than the rest
of the structural remains around the great inner court and shows some characteristic architectural
features, a brief description will be useful. The entrance hall, ii, consists, as the plan, Pl. 53, shows,

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