国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

Han period. It seems very unlikely to me that it has been brought to Charchan from
any distant place. If it was not actually excavated from inside the Kohna-shahr it
must nevertheless have been in the Charchan region.

As seen from the description in the list on p. 21 f. and Pl. 1 the body is spherical
and the neck slightly widening upwards. The painted decoration covers the whole
surface except the lowest part, and consists of black and yellowish white on a red
slip. The neck has a lattice pattern and the body a sort of "flames" and fringes. The
painting is well done and gives a pleasant effect. The colour print does not give full
credit to the mellow and warm tones of the original. The ware is yellowish red,
rather thin, and of good quality recalling that from Toqsun.

Both the shape and the elegant polychrome design is rather unique, and thus it is
at present difficult to determine its proper age with any higher degree of certainty.
It does not fit in with either of Prof. Andersson's groups of painted wares from
NW China or with the polychrome pottery of India, the Near East or SE Europe.

On the inside of the rim there are traces of black triangles like those on the
Toqsun sherds. There are other general similarities, too, such as the vertical group-
ing of the decorative elements, though the Toqsun vessels have had a more degene-
rated shape and also a much simpler decoration. It therefore seems likely that the
Charchan vase is older than the Toqsun pottery, and judging from its general style,
the colours and the ware, it seems to be a good specimen of chalcolithic ceramic.

LIST OF ANTIQUITIES

M i a o - e r h - k u.

K. 13328 : 1. Potsherd from rim of vessel. Near
rim a painted ornament of black,
open triangles. A handle has probably emerged
from the actual rim. Red ware. Th. 5 mm. Pl. 2 : 1.

K. 13328 : 2. Potsherd from rim of thin-walled
vessel. Light-red ware with a dark
line painted along the rim.

K. 13328 : 3. Potsherd from the widening mouth
of a vessel. The inside of the
mouth has a moulding and is painted with black,
vertical lines. Red ware.

K. 13328 : 4. Sherd from the collar of an earth-
enware vessel. Painted black verti-
cal lines reach only 1 cm. below the rim. Dark-red
slip on light-red ware.

K. 13328 : 5. Small potsherd from the neck of
a small vessel. Near rim some
short vertical lines in black. Light-red ware.

K. 13328 : 6. Potsherd from rim of wide bowl.
Along inside of rim a red band 2

cm. wide. The whole exterior was probably paint-
ed red. Thick, light-red ware.

K. 13328 : 7-8. Fragm. of two loop-shaped
handles of earthenware vessels.
Red slip with black "spruce-twig pattern". Light-
red ware. Br. 15 and 21 mm. —: 8 Pl. 2 : 3.

K. 13328 : 9. Fragm. of handle that has emerg-
ed from the rim of a vessel.
Traces of black painting. Red ware.

K. 13328 : 10. Fragm. of thick handle, painted
dark red on the outside. Br. 27
mm.

K. 13328 : 11. Potsherd, apparently from a high-
collared vessel. On the inside four
black lines, probably vertical. Red ware.

K. 13328 : 12. Small potsherd with black lines
forming a net. Red slip.

K. 13328 : 13. Small potsherd with dark-red slip
and narrow black lines, probably
forming a "spruce-twig pattern". Light-red ware.
Pl. 2 : 4.

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