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0330 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 / Page 330 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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[Figure] 496-502 Stone Implements from the Anau Kurgans.
[Figure] 498 from the South Kurgan, all others from the North Kurgan.

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of other countries. Professor Pumpelly suggested the possibility of its use as a standard of weight. This seemed the more likely when we came upon other smaller stones, all broken, but showing the same form.

From the loose wash earth of the South Kurgan the workmen took a millstone-shaped stone (fig. 511), 12 inches in diameter, with a 2.5-inch hole in the center. The edges were much scarred and chipped in a manner that could not have come from horizontal use against a similar stone; nevertheless, I took it to be a more or less modern implement from a Persian mill, of which there were several on the little watercourses flowing from the mountains south of our work.