Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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91. DOOR WITH ORNAMENTAL WOOD-CARVING IN SAND-BURIED RUIN OF DWELLING N. XII., NIYA SITE.
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92. REMAINS OF ORNAMENTAL WOOD-CARVING, MAINLY FROM RUINS OF NIYA SITE. Scale, one-seventh for Nos. 1 -8 ; one-sixteenth for Nos. 9-13. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8. Portions of cupboard decorated in Gandhara style. 3, 5. Wooden stamps with ornamentaldesigns. 4. Turned leg of chair or cupboard. 10, 11. Double brackets or architraves with floral ornamentin Gandhara style. 9, 12, 13. Architraves of later design from ruins at and near Khadalik. cH. XXIV AN OFFICIAL RESIDENCE 281 when the first strokes of the Ketman laid bare regularfiles of documents on wood near the floor of a room abouttwenty-six by twelve feet adjoining the central hall on thesouth (Fig. 93). Most of them were wedges, such aswere used for the conveyance of executive orders ; others,on oblong tablets, were accounts, lists, and miscellaneous* office papers, to use an anachronism. Evidently we hadhit upon files from an of^cials Daftar thrown down here,and excellently preserved under the cover of sand whicheven now lay five to six feet

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