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0553 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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occupation had ceased, and the constant digging for soil
to be used as manure had laid bare the natural hard clay
floor in most of the smaller dwellings. The ruins of
shrines usually rose on high bases spared from the original
soil (Fig. 263), and still retained a good deal of débris
between their walls; among these partial excavations for
antiquities had manifestly been effected.
Without systematic clearing it was impossible to make
sure how much these ruins still contained, and still less to
form any idea as to the chances of interesting finds in
the numerous cellars and other underground places which
implied centuries of construction on the part of the half-
troglodyte dwellers of this town. Nothing but a sacrifice
of long months of labour and corresponding expenditure
would avail here, and, since even then results would largely
depend upon luck, I wondered who would be fortunate
enough to command the leisure and means for attacking
Yar-khoto on the right scale. But there were plentiful
observations of interest to reward the several visits I paid
to this fascinating site and to the small rock-cut grottoes in
the adjoining ravines. Most of these had evidently served
as tombs; and, since the finds of the German expeditions
have proved the presence of Nestorian settlements at
Turfan, imagination was free to recognize a resemblance
between these resting-places and pictures of early Christian
tombs in desert valleys of Egypt or Palestine.