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Serindia : vol.3 |
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Section IV.—VISITS TO RUINED SITES OF TURFĀN
Six rapid marches from Toghucha by the high road brought me on November 10 to the Importance
oasis of Pichān, the easternmost of the fertile tracts comprised in the Turfān depression. The of Turfān
great importance attaching to this region from the point of view both of history and of geography sites.
has been known for a long time. Since the visits of Russian explorers first revealed the abundance
of its ruins, the old sites of Turfān have acquired exceptional interest for all students of the ancient
civilization of Central Asia, owing mainly to the prolonged and very fruitful archaeological labours
which a succession of German expeditions under Professors Grünwedel and von Lecoq carried out
there between 1902–7.
Since my tasks further west would not allow me to spare for Turfān more than a few weeks at Limitation
the utmost, while I knew its ruined sites to be both numerous and extensive, I had to arrange the of work at
programme of my visit on lines very different from those I was accustomed to follow elsewhere. It Turfān.
could not be my object to attempt to supplement the protracted labours which the German savants
had carried on, with all the advantages of ample time and thorough local experience, by excavations
at sites that might not yet have been fully exhausted. It appeared far more useful that I should
endeavour, within the limits of the available time, to familiarize myself in the first place with those
peculiar physical conditions and geographical aspects which make this region the reflex, as it were,
on a small scale of the whole Tārim Basin and have determined the essential features of its historical
past. For this study our topographical survey work obviously offered the best opportunity. In
addition, visits to the different sites were to furnish me with some direct knowledge of the con-
structive peculiarities of the ruins, the art remains left in situ, and anything else that might help me
to understand better the significance of the Turfān finds and to profit by them for the interpretation
of my own.
In accordance with this programme I succeeded in visiting in the course of less than three weeks Surveys in
all the ruined sites which Maps Nos. 54. 59 show from the extreme south-east end of the Turfān Turfān
basin to Yār-khoto, its ancient capital, in the west. The surveys carried out side by side with these basin.
tours, and pushed by R. B. Lāl Singh far beyond the inhabited area both to the north and the south,
allowed this interesting area to be mapped on a scale far more accurate and detailed than had been
done previously. Of the many useful observations which I was thus enabled to gather of the
characteristic physical and economic conditions prevailing in the Turfān basin some indications will
be found in my Personal Narrative.¹ The experience gained on these tours proved of the greatest
help later in planning the archaeological labours which my prolonged stay in the Turfān region
during the autumn and winter of 1914–15 made it possible to carry through. But the very fact
that this second visit covered a period of close on four months, and was also supplemented both
before and after by visits to ground which, though outside the Turfān depression, is yet closely con-
nected with it in geography and history, will explain the restriction which must be imposed upon
my present record.
It is obvious that it would be of little scientific utility if I were to discuss here the geographical Surveys and
and antiquarian observations of a general kind which my rapid tours of November, 1907, allowed me explorations
to gather, without taking into account the far more abundant and exact data bearing on the past and of 1914–15.
present of Turfān which my surveys and explorations of 1914–15 have yielded.² The proper
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