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ceiling of the domed cella still showed traces of a painted diaper, with rows of small Buddha figures
alternately in red and brown robes. Shapeless piles of masonry of sun-dried brick, extending in
a line to the south, looked as if they marked the position once occupied by a row of small Stūpas.
Two miles further down by the road leading to Lapchuk I came upon another small ruin known as
the 'Tāzganchūk Gumbaz'. Just below it flows the rapid, clear stream which carries the united
waters from Toghucha and Yār-bāshi down to the lands of Kara-döbe.¹¹ The cella measures here
5 feet 3 inches square inside and has an enclosing passage, 2 feet wide, entered from the east.
From this point downwards the gravel-covered depression widens considerably. In its middle
meander the two canalized beds which take the waters from Toghucha and Ilikul down to the lands
of Kara-döbe and Lapchuk respectively.¹² Near the point where the two streams would naturally
unite a low spur called Tuma bears a line of tiny cellas of the type already described. These
I had to leave unvisited from want of time. Another three miles' descent from Tāzganchūk brought
me to a group of conspicuous ruins within sight of Lapchuk village. One of these, marked I in the
plan (Plate 49. B) and seen in Fig. 261, consists of a central cella, measuring 9 feet by 10 within, and
flanked on either side by a smaller cella. All three originally carried domes, but of these only the
one covering the cella on the west has survived. All three cellas had their entrances on the south,
the central one being approached through a kind of vaulted anteroom which gives access to an
enclosing passage, also vaulted, 6 feet wide. On the walls of this passage there were some traces of
fresco decoration, purposely effaced under a fresh cover of plastering or whitewash. The whole
structure occupied a terrace of what seemed natural clay cut down on the sides, and showed signs of
having been occupied as a habitation after it had ceased to be a place of Buddhist worship.
About 40 yards to the west of this structure stands a conspicuous temple cella on a high double
base, marked II on the plan. The cella, about 10 feet square within, still retains most of its dome,
rising to a height of about 15 feet, but broken over the entrance on the south. The bricks used
here measured either 15″ × 7½″ × 3⅓″ or 12″ × 8″ × 4″. The cella occupies the top of a base 14 feet
high, built of stamped clay, which, again, rests on a broader base, 5 feet high, of what looked like natural
clay. The approach lay over a flight of stairs, now mostly broken, which led up from the south
over a ramp partly vaulted. Another shrine could be recognized in a completely ruined building
that measured about 63 feet by 53, situated circ. 200 yards to the south. Here, too, a natural clay
terrace had been converted by cuttings into a base. Several smaller ruins which I had no time to
visit were sighted on the gentle gravel slopes to the east and north-east.
To the south-west of the ruins I, II just mentioned there extends an area of eroded clay terraces,
covered from a distance of about 800 yards onwards with Muhammadan tombs and small vaulted
'Gumbaz' of the type usually met with in modern Turkestān cemeteries. Beyond this area rise the
ruined walls of a small fortified town, forming a rectangle approximately orientated. The walls are
built of stamped clay over parts of a high clay terrace which, as seen in Fig. 262, have been utilized for
a natural rampart to raise the height of the circumvallation. The faces of the south and east walls
measure about 185 and 120 yards respectively. Gates can be distinguished near the south-west and
north-east corners. At the latter rises a massive square tower to a height of about 40 feet, seen from

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