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Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 |
| 中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2 |
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which issued from the local headquarters. Without going
into technical intricacies of the complicated cyclical system
of reckoning, it must suffice to mention that these calendars
possess considerable importance as records which help to
control, and in a few instances to rectify, the traditional
chronology of the Han period.
Up to May 7th I was busy clearing the station the
records of which have just been passed in rapid review, and
exploring the last watch-towers traceable westwards. The
one which lay about two miles from T. VI. B was remarkable
for the ideal position it occupied on the flat top of a small
and completely isolated clay terrace fully 150 feet high.
The precipitous wall-like slopes made access to the ruined
tower quite impossible except from the east, where a steep
ravine descended, and even there it meant climbing. The
terrace, only about eighty yards long and less than half
that in width, suggested a huge natural keep. From its
top I looked across the great basin westwards, all salt-
encrusted marsh with here and there large open sheets of
water, and felt as if I were surveying a great lake from
the highest deck of a steamer.
Here, too, the remains of the guard's quarters yielded
relics of interest. The most curious among them was a
remarkably well preserved tablet, about sixteen inches
long, bearing at the top four short lines in the unknown
script resembling Aramaic which we had found weeks
before in the paper documents from the tower T. XII. A.
The tablet looked like the right half of a larger piece
cut through on purpose like a tally. I was already inclined
to connect this writing with Western Turkestan, and the
place of discovery, so far away from the ancient trade
route, made me wonder at the time whether possibly men
from that region had found service among the auxiliaries
of the Chinese on this border.
In another way it was a strange observation to find
a quantity of perfectly fresh-looking horse-dung and green
reeds cut into straw under the débris of the small room
or passage immediately adjoining the once heavily barred
entrance to the quarters. The space measured only about
seven feet square, and could barely have allowed the
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