. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Excavations in Degalah Ash-Hill, near Ukumiah. Specimen of Ancient Pottery from Urumiah(In the authors collection) THE ZOROASTRIAN ASH-HILLS 91 plain and the plain of Sulduz to the south, but not to thenorth in Salmas.^ They are all composed of immense depositsof ashes mixed with earth, the ashes having been added in many-cases to a natural small elevation. In fact, there is scarcelyan eminence on the plain which has not been increased, usuallyto a very great extent, by this means.^ T
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Excavations in Degalah Ash-Hill, near Ukumiah. Specimen of Ancient Pottery from Urumiah(In the authors collection) THE ZOROASTRIAN ASH-HILLS 91 plain and the plain of Sulduz to the south, but not to thenorth in Salmas.^ They are all composed of immense depositsof ashes mixed with earth, the ashes having been added in many-cases to a natural small elevation. In fact, there is scarcelyan eminence on the plain which has not been increased, usuallyto a very great extent, by this means.^ The natives all agreein calling them hills of the Fire-Worshippers. One must becareful, however, not to mistake for ash-mounds some of thenumerous hillocks (tapaK) about the lake, like the GumTapah at Mayan, not far from Tabriz, which imaginationmight easily crown with a fire-shrine. My first guide, know-ing my interest in the subject, obligingly called the GumTapah an Atash Gah (fire-temple), but it is a mere sand-heapand was probably never one of the Zoroastrian pyrcea. The village of Degalah directly adjoins Urumiah. The ash-hill is three or four hu
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