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Serindia : vol.3 |
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OCR読み取り結果
Mongol cultivation of Shikchin, had received visits from several European travellers, including
Dr. Hedin.² I knew that Professor Grünwedel had on two occasions in 1906–7 made stays of
several weeks at Shôrchuk for the sake of the ruins. But information received at Turfan indicated
that his work and that of his party had been mainly devoted to the cave-temples north of the main
site, and a rapid inspection of the latter soon convinced me that ample scope was left here for sys-
tematic excavations. It also showed that local conditions would allow them to be carried on rapidly.
So no time was lost about pitching camp in the midst of the ruins and arranging for adequate
labour.
Position of
ruins. The ruins of the main site, as seen in the photographs, Figs. 281–5, occupy the tops, and in
places also the slopes, of small gravel-covered ridges and plateaus of sandstone rising above the
loess plain. These represent the last offshoots from the range which flanks the valley of the
Khaidu-gol on the south. The site plan, Plate 51, shows that these slight but well-defined elevations
stretch all from north-west to south-east, bearing ruins for a total distance of about one-third of
a mile. The width of the area occupied by structural remains varies from two to three hundred
yards. About its middle the area is divided into a north-western and a south-eastern portion by
a small transverse depression. Here a tiny stream fed by two marshy springs rises in a gap at the
foot of the two westernmost ridges and makes its way eastwards, soon to disappear in the soft scrub-
covered loess of the plain. The same depression (seen in the middle of Figs. 281–3) also drains
the shallow little Nullahs which separate the several ridges and terraces.
Disposition
of ruins. Of the latter three can be easily distinguished to the south-east, each bearing rows of closely
serried structures, marked as groups I–III in the plan.³ To the north-west the disposition of the ruins
is far less regular. A large group of shrines, xi–xvii, including several massive temple ruins, attracts
attention on the central terrace overlooking the transverse depression. On the gentle slopes to the
north of it, and on narrow knolls descending to the east and south, there are scattered numerous
other structures mostly of modest size.⁴ The westernmost ridge, being steep and very narrow on
its top, is occupied only by a couple or so of small cellas, one of them immediately above the springs.
Cave-
temples
previously
explored. The cave-temples already referred to are situated about three-quarters of a mile to the north-west.
All with one exception cluster close together at the foot of the steep western slope of a higher sand-
stone ridge (Plate 51) of which the ridges and terraces on the main site form the south-eastern
continuation. For all details as to the position and character of these cave-shrines, nine in all,
adjoining some cavities which were probably rock-tombs, I may refer to the publication of Professor
Grünwedel, who completely explored them and has described them with great care and thorough-
ness.⁵ Of relatively small size and badly injured by vandal hands, they still retained fresco remains
and relievo fragments of great iconographic interest.
Arrange-
ments for
searching
ruins. The very large number of ruined structures at the main site, the considerable size of many
among them, and the heavy labour demanded by the excavation of the interior of the bigger temples,
filled not with drift-sand but with consolidated masonry débris, made it obvious from the outset that
within the time I could spare for this big site no attempt could be made to clear the whole of the
ruins. In order to assure desirable thoroughness in the search of individual ruins, limitation in
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