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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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region; and the province that we now enter is called *Reobarles.*¹⁰ What the sub-
sequent narrative tells us of the products and fauna of the country is in keeping
with what is now to be found in Jīruft and Rūdbār.
Marco Polo supplies us with a definite record of the time when 'the city of
Jīruft' began to fall into ruin and with an approximate indication of the period
from which the remains now to be seen there on the surface may be assumed to
date. But there is still the question to be answered as to how far back the occupa-
tion of the site may be traced. Apart from the notices of the Arab geographers,
which prove the city to have flourished already early in the ninth century, help
is afforded in this direction by the evidence of casual finds by the local villagers,
who are accustomed after rain to search the site for coins, seals, and other small
objects of value.
Among such finds as I was able to acquire by purchase the most useful are
forty-one copper and two silver coins. The examination kindly made by Mr. J.
Allan has shown that no less than thirty-two of the copper and one of the silver
coins are of the early Abbasids (*circa* A.D. 750–850), among them one of Al-
Wathik (842–7); three copper coins of the twelfth to thirteenth century; one
silver Jalairid coin of the fourteenth century and one Timurid copper coin of
about A.D. 1400, the remainder being unidentifiable. The marked prevalence of
the early Abbasid coins is significant. Among a dozen of small stones cut as
though for seals, two bear Arabic characters. Among the articles shown by the
Governor of Jīruft, Sardūyeh, and Isfandaqeh, then staying at Hūkird, there was
a stone seal showing a composite winged monster, perhaps meant for Muham-
mad's Burāq, and a bronze seal with the figure of a grazing cow. From the
Behkird district there came also a small stone seal showing an Eros with bow, and
another representing the figure of a man mounted on a monster. These Mīrzā
'Alī Muḥammad, Revenue Officer of the district, very kindly presented to me on
our passage through Sabzawārān. Both seals show very late Hellenistic style.
Without extensive excavations carried to a considerable depth below the
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