Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Excavations ix 1»e<;alah Ash-Hill, xeau Ukimiah. Specimen mf Ancient Potteuy irhu Tkumiah(Iq the authors coUectiou) THE ZOROASTRIAN ASH-HILLS 91 plain and the plain of Sulduz to the south, but not to thenorth in They are all composed of immense depositsof ashes mixed Avith earth, the ashes having been added in manycases 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.
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Excavations ix 1»e<;alah Ash-Hill, xeau Ukimiah. Specimen mf Ancient Potteuy irhu Tkumiah(Iq the authors coUectiou) THE ZOROASTRIAN ASH-HILLS 91 plain and the plain of Sulduz to the south, but not to thenorth in They are all composed of immense depositsof ashes mixed Avith earth, the ashes having been added in manycases 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. 2 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 pyrsea. The village of Degalah directly adjoins Urumiah. The ash-hill is three or four hu
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