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xviii INTRODUCTION University's Fund which, mainly through the effort of Professor Paul J. Sachs and other Harvard friends, had been raised for my Central-Asian effort of 1930-31 and my first two Persian expeditions, and to which the British Museum had also contributed. I feel greatly beholden to Professor Sachs who was in charge of that Fund for having approved the use of the sum left unspent to subsidize the present publication, and to the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the chief contributor, for having given ready assent to this course. To my friend Mr. C. E. A. W. Oldham, C.S.I.

, I owe warm thanks for the painstaking revision of my text before it passed into the hands of the printers. To Messrs. R. & R. Clark I feel particularly grateful for the special effort they readily made, in spite of war conditions, in order to assure this book being passed through the press before my departure for India. At a time when the results of my recent antiquarian campaign on Rome's easternmost Limes still await a full report and when a projected task of exploration calls me to another great empire's border, it is no small comfort to me to feel that the obligation incurred over my latest work on Iranian soil is now absolved by this record. AUREL STEIN NÄGIN BAGH, KASHMIR December 24th, 1939