É. Apor (ed.): Stein, Aurel: Old Routes of Western Iran. (Budapest Oriental Reprints, Ser. B 2.)
Chapter I.—In Westernmost Färs
46 IN WESTERNMOST FA RS [Chap. I Princess '. The ascent to it proved a very stiff climb of some 500 feet. From a narrow terrace at the foot of the vertical rock-wall below the tomb a good view of its front could be gained (Fig. 14). But I realized also that even had I not lost the toes of my right foot on a K'un-lun glacier it would not have been practicable for me to reach this. Fortunately a Kohgalu herdsman, whom we had picked up at the foot of the mountain, managed to clamber up like a spider over the narrowest fissures and toe-holds. He proved intelligent enough to handle a tape-measure given him and thus secure for us approximate measurements. Below the front of the tomb the precipitous face of the cliff has been cut into a vertical wall 10 feet high. Its length, 18 feet, is the same as that of the platform, 4 feet wide, at the foot of the fagade. Immediately below this is a step, 2 feet wide and 1 foot high. From this a porch about 4 feet 5 inches wide gives access to the entrance, 6 feet high and about 3 feet wide, leading into the tomb chamber. This was described to us as rectangular containing neither a burial-place nor any sculptural decoration. Above this chamber there exists another cavity of which an opening, like a window, is seen close to the top of the facade on the left. Roughly measured from there the engaged columns of the fagade appeared to be about 14 feet in height, and the architrave divided into two faciae crowned with a battlemented cornice of seven gradini give at least 6 feet more. The most striking architectural features of the fagade are the quasi-Ionic capitals of the columns, which, with an abacus supporting the architrave, seemed to me to suggest
