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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1 |
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Plan and Vertical Section of Outer Digging I in the Outer City. |
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side, towards which the floor is gently inclined. It consists of a channel put
together with red brick fragments and covered at the top. It is continued in a
clay pipe. The upper edge of this pipe stands at about the same level as the
bottom of the basin. Thus the discharge has a proper fall and was in all proba-
bility a part of a drainage system. The remains of such pipe-systems were also
found at other points in the excavation, similar clay pipes occurring in different
depths (3 feet 4 inches and 8.5 feet) on the longer side of the pit (fig. 427).
After the removal of the construction just described, the excavation was
deepened by the establishment of two terraces, respectively 15 and 8 feet long,
at the respective depths of 11.5 feet and 17 feet. An older layer was reached
at a depth of 20 feet 5 inches, where, in the southeast corner of the digging, there
stood a cylindrical pithos in
situ.
Still deeper, at 23 feet 4
inches, was found the head
of a female clay figure. At
a depth of 27 feet, work was
stopped on June 7.
It is naturally of interest
to compare the culture lay-
ers opened upon the plateau
of the outer city with those
of the acropolis hill. The
pottery found in outer dig-
ging I is the same in all the
layers and corresponds to
that of the upper digging.
We must therefore refer the
plateau and the acropolis
hill, in so far as they have
been explored, to the same
great culture epoch. The numerous coins found in outer digging I will aid in
determining the age of this epoch.
OUTER DIGGING II.
For the characterizing of this culture, the supply-vessels found in outer
digging II are of great significance. (See the special report of Homer Kidder.)
They belong to the same class as the large marginal fragments of the upper digging
which were covered with inscriptions. These finds will be discussed later.
GALLERIES I TO III.
The examination of the galleries, which were intended to penetrate the heart
of the acropolis at different levels, led to no decisive results. In the two upper
galleries, I and II, it was necessary to cut through very thick walls of sun-dried
bricks, but very few pottery fragments were brought out, and these, as regards
form and workmanship, belong to the same pottery as that from the upper digging.
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