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Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
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Bridge of
Takht-i-pul. ancient fire-temple which some of those Arab geographers mention at that town. The ruined bridge
of baked bricks now for the most part buried in silt, and known as Takht-i-pul, lies about 2 miles
to NNW. of Kārku-shāh. As this is the direction which the main route from Zaranj (Nād-ʿAlī)
towards Juwain and Herat must have followed, there is much to support Mr. Tate's assumption
that this bridge was probably the same as that mentioned by Istakhrī's itinerary between the
stages of Basher (Pēshawarān) and Karkūyeh.¹³
Antiques
brought
from sites
on Afghān
side. I may conclude this account of ruins of the Muhammadan period with brief notes on the
specimens of pottery fragments and similar small remains brought back by some Balūchīs whom
Rustam, a local 'treasure-seeker', had sent out to search on my behalf certain ruined sites in the
Afghān portion of Sīstān. I had no means of verifying the provenance of the specimens brought
to me and shown in the Descriptive List below, but the type of the potsherds, mainly glazed ware of
Muhammadan times, seems to agree in the case of Nād-ʿAlī and Surhdik with the information
furnished by Mr. Tate's report as regards the occupation of these sites.¹⁴ The pieces said to have
been brought from Takht-i-Rustam are mostly of the 'ribbed' variety and suggest an earlier
date for the site, as also does the name. Its position is marked in Degree Sheet No. 30. E. on
the northern edge of the Hāmūn-i-Pūzak. The exact position of 'Pusht-i-gau' is uncertain; it
is probably the same as the Pōst-i-gau referred to by Mr. Tate,¹⁵ a site to the north of Chakānsur.
Saliān was stated to be a ruined site to the east of the Farāh Rūd near Pēshawarān, and is marked
as a modern hamlet with a query in Sheet No. 30. E. Sarat-o-tār, from which the small bronze
objects, Pl. CXVI, were said to have been brought, is an important site in the desert east of the
Helmand.¹⁶
Decorated
pottery
from ruins
NW. of
Sīstān. The fragments of decorated pottery, mainly glazed and painted, marked with A and B in the
List, were collected by Afrāz-gul Khān in 1918, while engaged on survey work in Eastern Persia,
at two ruined hill forts situated to the NW. of the Sīstān basin. The site of A was described by
him as being on a hill about 14 miles to the east of Sarbīshah, a place on the Sīstān–Bīrjand high road.
The ruins from which the pieces of B were brought stand on a hill rising some 500 feet above the
same road near Khunik where it is joined by the road coming from Neh. Judging from the style
of decoration, the specimens from these two places (Pl. CXVII) seem to belong approximately to
the same period as the pottery of Burj-i-Afghān, and hence their inclusion here seemed justified.
Section IV.—LIST OF POTTERY SPECIMENS AND OTHER SMALL
OBJECTS FROM LATER SITES IN NORTHERN SĪSTĀN
SPECIMENS OF POTTERY FRAGMENTS FROM ZĀHIDĀN SITE
Zah. 01. Fr. of pottery. Dark grey, very hard. Plain;
prob. overburnt and distorted by heat. 1⅛″×1⅜″.
Zah. 02, 03, 04. Frs. of pottery dishes. 02, red,
coated with dark green glaze over pattern in grey. Edge
grey with series of oblique narrow leaves as border on flat
margin of dish. Within an annular grey line a series of
willow-leaf shapes in solid grey radiate from centre. A
small triangular leaf shape grows on line and points down
between willow-leaves. 3⅛″×3″. 03, buff. Similar glaze
to above. Floral border in solid grey and bold pattern.
Glazed outside and a few bold grey lines. 2⅜″×2⅜″. 04,
similar to 02 but lighter colour. Edge solid grey, two inner
annular lines and small repeating scroll in grey within field.
1⅜″×1⅜″.
Zah. 05, 09. Frs. of pottery (found NW. of Z. on
eroded ground). Regularly ribbed outside. 05, dark grey
with brown-grey surfaces. 2⅜″×1⅛″. 09, red. 2⅛″×1″.
Zah. 06, 07. Frs. of pottery, prob. from same vessel.
Decoration, incised bands of triangles, with groups of lines
arranged fan-wise between. Av. 1⅛″×1¼″.
Zah. 08. Fr. of pottery, from edge of dish. Graceful
curve in section with change of direction emphasized on
outside by slight ridge. Lip grey. Border alternate
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