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

Chapter I.—In Westernmost Färs

Sec. v] KÖTAL-I-SANGAR TO BÄSHT 45 About 11 miles farther west another rivulet fed from springs in a rocky bay near the cave dwellings of Khunji-Jamshid passes a remarkably massive and fairly wellpreserved barrage meant to store water for irrigation (Fig. 13). This consists of a wall built with rubble set in hard mortar, some 100 yards long, and about 10 feet thick in its lower portion. The masonry and the round arch of a central opening, obviously meant for regulating the outflow, suggest Sasanian origin for this fine piece of engineering. The remains of a ruined water-mill met a couple of hundred yards higher up seemed to date from the same period. Just below the troglodyte dwellings of Khunj-i-Jamshld is seen a second ruined barrage, but not so well preserved, and probably of later date. Lower down, at the mound of Tul-i-Pashedu, which rises to about 20. feet in height, the presence on the top of burnished and glazed potsherds pointed to occupation down to historical times. About a mile farther to the west we crossed the wide torrentbed of the Tang-i-Shlr, draining the Naugak valley. High up in the hills to the north stood the residence of Imam Qüli Khan, a renowned Mämasänl chief of the RustamI tribe, who had owned most of the lower Deh-i-nau valley. He had rebelled a few years before, and was said to have since been executed at Tehran with a number of Bakhtiär! notables. Beyond the Tang-i-Shir an early and very impressive monument of antiquity presented itself in a great rock-cut tomb on a high and very precipitous mountainside. From the pairs of double columns of reddish limestone carved in high relief on either side of the entrance to the tomb chamber it is known as Dä-ü-dukhtar

, ' the Nurse and