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0222 Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1
西北インドと南東イランにおける考古学的調査 : vol.1
Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 / 222 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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stamped clay or mud bricks, and must obviously have undergone many renewals
during successive periods. Only systematic excavation among them could throw
light on the question as to when the hill was first fortified.²

The ready help offered by the Consulate Staff allowed us to complete all
arrangements within a week. On the morning of May 1st Dr. Fábri and myself,
refreshed by our stay in the cool air of Kermān, were able to start with our six
cases of antiquities carefully packed for Bushire. A day's stop at Isfāhān under
the hospitable roof of Mr. E. Bristow, the British Consul, permitted enjoyable
glimpses to be gained of the monuments bequeathed by a great period of Persian
architecture. Thence a delightful journey by an excellent motor-road through
interesting scenery brought us on May 4th to Persepolis, where the kindest
welcome on the part of Professor E. Herzfeld awaited us.

Under the guidance of this distinguished scholar and excavator, the greatest
living authority on the monuments and history of ancient Īrān, we were privi-
leged for two days to inspect the remains of this magnificent site, perhaps the
most impressive in Asia. It has rewarded his devoted labours of years with a
constant succession of highly important new discoveries. On May 7th we passed
through Shīrāz, and two days later, after crossing in comfort the rugged hill
ranges once so trying to travellers, arrived in Bushire. There we were welcomed
with kindest hospitality by the late Colonel H. V. Biscoe, British Political Resi-
dent in the Persian Gulf. The immediate passage through the Persian Customs
of our antiquities for shipment to the British Museum could not be secured during
our short stay. But some weeks later the strenuous efforts made by Captain (now
Major) E. Gastrell, the British Consul, Bushire, achieved this, to us important,
concession as granted under the original orders sanctioning my explorations.

On May 11th we were able to embark on the British India Mail Steamer
Varela for Basra, whence the convenient service jointly organized by the Iraq,
Syrian, and Turkish Railways brought us by May 20th to Constantinople, and
thus back to Europe. Of the very instructive days I was able to spend at the great
museums and libraries of that ancient link between the West and Near East
I cannot forgo making grateful mention.