NAWAN SHAHR (Cave at)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What appears to represent a sacred but otherwise unspecified cave (temple cave) blocked with a red coloured infilling reported DUCLUZAUX (1993 Mss, 1994a: 26, 1994c: 39, 1995a: 11) and DUCLUZAUX & JUBERTHIE (2001: 1956) from below a certain Ilyasi mosque (note 1) erected above a spring of water (note 2) at a place called Nawan Sehr (or so) in an unrecognised spatial relation near (sic!) Abbottabad.SITUATION: There exists no Nawan Sehr (Ducluzaux, passim) in Pakistan (note 3) but Nawan Shahr (N34°14'35”: E073°03' nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) or Nowshahra (AMS sheet NI43-05 Mardan, U502 series, 1958 edition) lies at a travelling distance of about 16 km or 18 km along the road from Abbottabad (note 4) approximately south-west towards Rawalpindi. The Geological map of Kohistan and adjoining regions (THAKUR 1992: 253 figure 6.21 after COWARD et al. 1986) shows near the bottom margin undifferentiated Precambrian sediments in the south-west of Abbottabad.What appears to represent a sacred but otherwise unspecified cave (temple cave) blocked with a red coloured infilling reported DUCLUZAUX (1993 Mss, 1994a: 26, 1994c: 39, 1995a: 11) and DUCLUZAUX & JUBERTHIE (2001: 1956) from below a certain Ilyasi mosque (note 1) erected above a spring of water (note 2) at a place called Nawan Sehr (or so) in an unrecognised spatial relation near (sic!) Abbottabad.SITUATION: There exists no Nawan Sehr (Ducluzaux, passim) in Pakistan (note 3) but Nawan Shahr (N34°14'35”: E073°03' nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) or Nowshahra (AMS sheet NI43-05 Mardan, U502 series, 1958 edition) lies at a travelling distance of about 16 km or 18 km along the road from Abbottabad (note 4) approximately south-west towards Rawalpindi. The Geological map of Kohistan and adjoining regions (THAKUR 1992: 253 figure 6.21 after COWARD et al. 1986) shows near the bottom margin undifferentiated Precambrian sediments in the south-west of Abbottabad.