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Ancient Khotan : vol.1 |
| 古代コータン : vol.1 |
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appliqué female heads in a style unmistakably betraying classical influence. The small figurine
of a Sitār player (S. 007) and the fragment of a grotesque animal (S. 006) serve to indicate
the curious similarity in favourite subjects which seem to connect the Afrāsiyab terra-cottas with
those of Yōtkan. The numerous terra-cotta grotesques seen by me in the Samarkand Museum
illustrate this, as well as certain characteristic differences in treatment.
Journey by
Trans-
Caspian
Railway. A day's stay at Merw allowed me to touch ground full of memories of ancient Irān.
Though the chance of seeing the remains of old Mōurwa, the capital of classical Margiana,
brought to light from below the alluvium of the oasis, seems scanty indeed, I felt grateful for
standing on the soil of a region to which my interest has been attached ever since the com-
mencement of my Orientalist studies. Then past the ruins of Gōktepe, an historical site of more
recent memories, the railway carried me to Krasnowodsk. From there I crossed the Caspian
to Baku, and, finally, after long days in the train, I arrived in London on July 2, 1901.
Arrival in
London. There I was able to deposit the antiques unearthed from the desert sands in the British
Museum as a safe temporary resting-place. It was a relief to find that the long and partly
difficult transit of close on six thousand miles had caused but slight damage even to those
most fragile of objects the reliefs of friable stucco, and that the eight hundred odd negatives
on glass plates brought back as the photographic results of my journey were safe. But I soon
realized that the successful completion of my exploratory labours, which had been rewarded by
results far beyond long-cherished hopes, was also the commencement of a period of toil, the
more trying because the physical conditions under which it had to be done were so different
from those I had gone through.
Arrange-
ment of
collection
of antiques. On the proposal of the Indian Government His Majesty's Secretary of State for India had
sanctioned for me a six weeks' period of deputation in London, in order to enable me to make
a preliminary arrangement and inventory of my archaeological finds. The authorities of the
British Museum, acting on the request submitted for me by Professor E. J. Rapson, agreed to
afford accommodation to the collection, pending arrangements for its final distribution between
their own museum and the museums of Calcutta and Lahore—a measure decided upon while
I was still engaged in my explorations. They also liberally accorded to me all needful assist-
ance towards the cleaning and preservation of the more delicate objects, such as manuscripts,
painted tablets, &c. Owing to the great extent of the collections I had succeeded in bringing
back the task of arranging and cataloguing proved a very exacting one, and the period of
deputation sanctioned for it wholly insufficient. In consideration of these facts the Secretary
of State was pleased to extend the latter by another period of six weeks. I had every reason
to feel grateful for this concession. Yet it was only at the cost of the greatest exertions and
through the devoted help of my friend Mr. Fred. H. Andrews, which I was fortunate enough
to secure at this juncture, that I succeeded in accomplishing the most urgent portions of that
heavy task and the preparation of my Preliminary Report during the allotted period.
Return to
Indian
duties. The necessity under which I then was of returning to India for educational duties wholly
unconnected with my scientific labours seemed seriously to threaten my hopes of being allowed
fully to record and investigate the discoveries which had rewarded my Turkestān explorations.
But after long and busy weeks, spent mainly in the basement rooms of the British Museum,
where I felt as if immured for the sake of science, I had to welcome even this change as
a temporary respite. How much easier would it have been for me, then and since, to face such
separation from my true aims of life, could I have felt but assured of the leisure needed for
the accomplishment of the work now concluded—and of freedom for fresh explorations!
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