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Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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77- LARGE FRAGMENT OF FRESCOED WALL FROM BUDDHIST TEMPLE, KHADALIK, WITH STENCILLED BUDDHA FIGURES. The foot-measure in top left corner indicates the scale.
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78. INTERIOR OF SMALL RUINED DWELLING EXCAVATED TO THE NORTH OF MAINTEMPLE SITE, KHADALIK. Aziz, the Ladaki servant, seated on bench near ancient fireplace. CH. XX A NUMISMATIC FIND 245 and some of the stucco pieces were blackened by smoke,a clear proof that the ruin had suffered from fire. Woodentablets inscribed in Brahmi ; boards used for holdingPothis, with remains of leaves still adhering ; fragments ofa text illuminated with miniatures, also emerged from thissmall shrine in gratifying variety. But the discovery which pleased me most was anumismatic one. Deep down on the floor of the passagethrough which the entrance to the cella had led, therecame to light first a scattered batch of Chinese coppercoins of the Tang period, and then, as if to satisfy mycraving for exact chronological evidence, from a cornertwo completely preserved rolls of coins, counting sometwenty and fifty pieces respectively, still held together bythe original string which the last owner had passed throughthei

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