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0421 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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seaport, called Sokona, or Aboskun (Water of Oskun, or
Sokona), at the mouth of the Gurgen River. The site of
Aboskun is marked by the ruins of Gumush Tepeh, or
Silver Hill, from which the so-called "Red Wall," a great
bulwark against the Huns, stretches eastward to the moun-
tains in a line of mounds a hundred and fifty miles long.
The Caspian Sea, to quote Rawlinson, "must have been at a
very low level when Aboskun and the great wall were first
commenced, if it be true, as the Russian surveys report,
that remains of masonry along the line of the wall can be
traced below water eighteen miles from the shore." O'Don-
ovan and Eichwald also speak of the wall, and of a caravan-
serai of Aboskun which now lies under water. The most
reliable and ancient Persian tradition, according to Rawlin-
son, relates that the wall was built by the Sassanian king,
Firuz, against Kiyataleh, between A. D. 459 and 484.
At Derbent, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea,
four hundred and fifty miles from Aboskun, there is a great
wall of the same sort, supposed to have been built in the
fifth or sixth century of our era. Its base is said to be slightly
under water. In the bay of Resht, according to Brückner,
there are houses of unknown date standing in the sea, al-
though they certainly were built on dry land; and Sokolof
relates a Persian account of the ruins of a submerged city
near the mouth of the Kur, or Cyrus River. Finally, at Baku
we saw the towers of a well-preserved caravanserai project-
ing above the water some distance from the shore. Their
base lies fifteen feet below the level which Brückner has
taken as zero in his investigations of the fluctuations of the
sea. Lenz believes that the caravanserai dates from before