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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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different from the coarse material found at other sites, were also of
foreign origin, has not as yet been definitely decided. But the
discovery of a seal made of a piece of ancient Chinese porcelain
plainly points to such imports.
Far more numerous, of course, were the objects for which local
manufacture may be assumed. Mixed up with pottery frag-
ments of all kinds there were rags of cotton and woollen materials,
some showing delicate patterns and colours; eating-sticks and
spindles of wood; remains of leather shoes and women's slippers
coloured red just like the 'Charuks' still in favourite use; thick
wooden horse-combs; spoons made of bone; and other articles of
domestic use. The large number of sheep's knuckle-bones, often
painted red or yellow, shows that gambling with this simple form of
dice must have had its votaries in the household. Besides these
there were was found also an ivory die, of the peculiar elongated
shape still popular in India, and marked with round punches on its
four sides.
When the rubbish had all been cleared out, I found that one
corner of the room was occupied by a circular mud-platform, about 5
feet in diameter and 3 feet high, with its centre hollowed out to a
depth of 10 inches. The men from Niya at once expressed the belief
that it was a trough, such as is used to this day in the houses of
better-class people for keeping flowers fresh under water or wetted
leaves. If the contrivance really served this object, it must have con-
tinued in use during all the time the rubbish around it was accumula-
ting. For the hollow on the top was found filled only with drift-sand.
The other rooms of the house had evidently been cleared long
ago. Yet even here the search was not entirely fruitless. In the
sheltered corner of the apartment next adjoining N. xv. I came
upon a heap of wheat straw which, as the piece of matting below
it showed, must have fallen from the roof. Among the straw there
were stalks still retaining their grains in perfect preservation.
There was no pony at hand like Turdi Khwoja's venerable animal at
Dandan-Uiliq on which to try the value of the antique straw as a
foodstuff. But my quaint old guide himself, the "Aksakal of the
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