Tiers of cisterns with 'Araghatta' well from east [Ij]. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Landscape Photography Ancient Persis, fig. 17: 'Cisterns built along cliffs at southern end of ruined 'Town of Ij'.' (Ancient Persis Map C2). Araghatta is the Sanskrit word for the Persian wheel, a linked series of waterpots for moving water up from one cistern to another. Subjects = a...
Ab-i-chuk, stone enclosures with cliffs [near Istahbanat]. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Landscape Photography '...I visited the small terrace of Ab-i-chuk on the stony glacis of bare hills. Over an area of about 300 yards in diameter it is covered with numerous irregular enclosures, some roughly circular or quadrilateral, formed by large upright blocks of stone. Three of th...