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『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

more small rooms were cleared on the top of the southern knoll, the scanty relics
found there were of the same kind as just described.

The plentiful fragments of painted ceramic ware of which specimens are
reproduced in Pl. XXVII present particular interest by their close agreement in
decorative style, on the one hand with the painted pottery recovered from the
cairns of Jīwanrī and Zangiān in British Makrān, and on the other with the
painted ware from sites in Dera Ismail Khān and Northern Balūchistān, which
I was led tentatively to assign to late prehistoric or early historical times. As
regards the former nexus it will be sufficient to compare the pieces I. surf. 22,
23, 24, 25; E. 12, 14, 27, 29, showing 'Greek' scrolls, zigzag bands, vandykes,
'triglyphs', &c., with the complete vessels recovered from cairns at Jīwanrī
and Zangiān.¹³ The similarity to the latter type of painted pottery is illustrated
by comparing details of motifs in I. surf. 9, 18, 20, 31, 32; E. 4, 5, 9, 10, &c.,
with those seen in a large number of specimens shown in Plates II–IV of my
report on 'An Archaeological Tour in Wazīristān and Northern Balūchistān'.¹⁴

It is true that some of the incomplete patterns seen on such small fragments of
fine grey ware as I. surf. 9, 14 (Pl. IX); I. 4, surf. 10, 11, 29, 31; E. 3, 11, 19,
recall elements to be found also on chalcolithic painted pottery. But the possi-
bility which this resemblance might suggest of the Damba-kōh site having been
occupied also at a far earlier period than that of the cairn burials is precluded
by the negative fact that not a single stone blade or scraper, so plentiful at all
chalcolithic sites of Makrān, could be found here. On the other hand, the plentiful
presence of plain 'ribbed' pottery, such as I. surf. 35; II–IV. surf. 110 (Pl. V),
is significant of occupation in historical times, and so also the presence of green-
glazed ware, including a piece, I. surf. 26, decorated in relief. It only remains
to mention that the surface finds at Dam. I comprised also a terra-cotta style
(I. surf. 5), beads of glass and terra-cotta as well as fragments of bronze vessels,
glass and a decorated bone object (I. surf. 4, Pl. X).

While excavation work was proceeding at Damba-kōh between January 11th
and 15th I was able to spare time for visits to three localities where Mīr Aḥmad
Khān's information indicated old remains. The first place visited was a bare
rocky ridge known as Kōh-i-Kashū, situated about 6 miles to the north-east of
Damba-kōh.¹⁵ It was reached over a bare alluvial flat, broken here and there by
shallow channels which water from the Bāhū river appeared to have reached in
a not very distant past. The extreme western portion of the ridge rises about