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xiv INTRODUCTION provided me with a very helpful travel companion, ever anxious to smooth my way with local officials and much interested in my labours. For the selection of this very capable and willing companion, and for much effective support of my plans, I am greatly indebted to Monsieur A. Godard, Directeur des Antiquités en Iran. Under the arrangement very kindly agreed to by the Ministry of Public Instruction I was permitted temporarily to deposit at the British Museum all antiquities collected for expert examination and study, subject to their subsequent division into half shares in accordance with the law concerning antiquities. This very generous concession rendered it possible to entrust the detailed analysis and description of the whole collection to the expert care of my artist friend and devoted collaborator Mr. Fred H. Andrews, O.B.E. I feel very grateful to the Trustees of the British Museum for having in return for my half share in the collection generously provided a grant of ,£300 to secure this valuable assistance. I appreciate this provision all the more since all expenses incurred on the expedition, including the cost of excavations, had to be met from my own pocket. By his labours on all the antiquities brought back from my Central-Asian and Persian explorations and by his great artistic and technical knowledge, Mr. Andrews was exceptionally competent to deal with the new finds. It was due primarily to his expert study and thorough analysis of all the objects that I was able to treat of them while preparing the present publication far away in my Kashmir mountain camp. The arrangement of the plates reproducing selected antiques, the drawings of ceramic shapes (Pis. XXVII-