É. Apor (ed.): Stein, Aurel: Old Routes of Western Iran. (Budapest Oriental Reprints, Ser. B 2.)

Chapter II. —In Kohgalu Tracts

Sec. i] B

ASHT TO KHAIRÄBÄD RIVER 63 strengthened by a pair of semicircular archways, 3 feet wide at each of the corners. On the south-east face access to the square passage is gained by an extrance hall, G, originally vaulted. It appears to have been about 12 feet wide and 16 feet long, but owing to far-advanced decay these dimensions are somewhat doubtful. This entrance hall is flanked by two rooms, C, D

, measuring approximately 19 feet.

6 inches by 9 feet 6 inches. A window-like opening 2 feet wide over the vaulting of each gave light to the passage behind. Both rooms have an entrance, 2 feet wide, on their narrower side. But only from D is access available to the gallery H, 32 feet 6 inches long and 10 feet wide, which adjoins the passage B on its north-west side. The corresponding gallery, /, on the opposite side has its access from the room E

, 10 feet square, at the northern corner of the mansion. The room F, of the same dimensions, at the western corner has only one doorway, and that from outside. In this respect it conforms to the arrangement of room C at the eastern corner. There still remains to be mentioned the apartment J on the north-western side of the mansion, corresponding in its dimensions to the galleries H and I. It may possibly have served for domestic purposes ; the only place with which it communicates, apart from the interior corridor B, is a semicircular room, K. This is attached to the outside of the building with a wall thinner than the rest, and might perhaps have been used as a kitchen. All other walls have an average thickness of 3 feet. The masonry consists throughout of rubble set in hard mortar. Other details of construction could be definitely settled only by excavation ;