Kal’ai Mug, Istaravshan, Tajikistan
The structure was located on a steep mountain at an altitude of 120 m from the confluence of the Kum River in Zeravshan and was a courtyard and a two-storey building made of stone and brick measuring 18.5 × 19.5 m. Inside the building there were five vaulted rooms connected by a through passage.
In 1932 a shepherd from the Tajik village of Khayrabad found in the ruins on the mountain a basket with fragments of ancient documents. After some time, the find was delivered to Leningrad to the well-known orientalist A. A. Freiman, who established that the document contains the text in the Sogdian language.
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