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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Zerafshan Galchas near the Glacier. |
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leaving a remainder standing as a high inclined table at that tributary's valley
mouth. There still remains a shallow channel, once occupied by Vaushan water,
leading to the kurgan, but now the Vaushan debouches into the Zerafshan through
a canyon in terrace G on the other side of the ancient table.
Kodishar Kurgan (fig. 483), or the ruins of ancient Kodishar, is physiographi-
ally by far the most interesting abandoned oasis of the valley. Lying on terrace
G and just outside the present oasis, it is bounded on two sides by an impassable
cliff of the meandering canyon, while round the other two it is bounded by a triple
row of moats, ranged one within the other. Altogether its ruins cover about
100,000 square feet, with about 4 feet depth of culture remains, composed of clay-
mixed cobbles rich in pottery, both glazed and not glazed, with some glass and
iron fragments. Tradition places it over a thousand years old and mullahs say
the Zerafshan flowed on a level with it, splitting through its moats then spanned
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