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There was also a dark coloured, unglazed ware with moulded decoration.
Dambaguh, north of Tīz, produced fragments similar to those of the other Makrān
sites, with the addition of a piece of lustred pottery of the tenth to twelfth century
type, and some later Chinese blue and white, probably dating from about 1500.
Fragments of glass found on the Makrān sites (when they admit of classification)
are, generally speaking, similar to those found at Samarra and should therefore date
from about the ninth or tenth century.
The sites visited on the journey northward produced pottery of very similar kinds,
but with a larger proportion of the later Persian types. At Geh, Chihil-dukhtarān,
the finds were very mixed, including fourteenth-century Persian tiles with blue and
lustre decoration, star tiles with plain turquoise blue glaze, late copies of Chinese blue
and white, and some pieces which seemed quite modern. There was also Chinese blue
and white porcelain and celadon.
The sites near Fanūch yielded wares of graffito and slip-painted types, and other
wares of the ninth or tenth century kinds, besides unglazed pottery painted in red or
polished.
At Bampūr was found unglazed and painted pottery and a fine unglazed red ware
with burnished lines, besides pottery with leaf green and dark peacock green glazes
and some with black painting under a blue glaze. There were also copies of Chinese
blue and white, apparently made in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
At Pishukān and Dambiān, nearby, the medieval types—graffito, &c.—appear, and
at Kalātuk the same were mixed with late blue and white pottery.
Similarly mixed wares were found at Gulmurti, Kalanzū, and Penk on the journey
north-west, while at Chāh Ghulām and Chāh Hasan graffito ware and pottery
painted in manganese or in black, under a blue glaze, ranged from the tenth to the
twelfth century.
Farther to the north-west Tump-i-Hazār-mardi produced a reddish ware with thick
glaze as completely crystalline as that of the late Babylonian pottery—a phenomenon
possibly due to the peculiar properties of the soil.
At Tump-i-Kharg tenth or eleventh century types were found, including lustred
pottery, graffito, and slip-painted wares, a fragment boldly painted in manganese and
yellow, and other pieces with dark peacock green or deep blue glazes. Water vessels
were also found, and part of a mould which suggests a local manufacture of these
necessary articles.
At the neighbouring Tump-i-Amīrābād slip-painted ware of tenth-century type was
found together with blue-glazed pottery of the Rhages type.
The finds at Shahr-i-Dāqianūs in Jīruft were of much interest. There was a group of
red wares (with flat bases) coated with slips either white or black, under a transparent
lead glaze. They were decorated with graffito designs; painted in manganese and
yellow; or painted with slips, chiefly white. Bold patterns in white on a black ground
recalled one of the so-called Samarkand types.² Two triangular kiln supports used for
this class of ware indicated a local manufacture for this group.
Other interesting types included mottled, blue and white, lustred wares, green
glazed pottery with moulded reliefs all similar to the Samarra pottery, and a slightly