Hadda (Caves at)

Various descriptions

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Archaeologically interesting man-made rock chambers (note 1), complete with mounds and ruins, are reported by MASSON (note 2), SIMPSON (1881: 198 note 2), and SIMPSON (1882: 329) from a situation north of –>Hoda Raja's Palace in the -Tappa Zurgaran- (Tappa Zurgaran), or Goldsmith's / Jeweller's Mound west of Ada (note 3). CAVE DESCRIPTION: SIMPSON (1882a: 329; 1882b): Three or four… [of the -Caves- are] are exceptional in their form. They are square in plan, with flat roof, but the roofs have domes in their centres. The domes are round in all except one, which is conical, or of a tent shape (see plate 5). These caves are very small, the one with the conical dome is of very restricted dimensions, being about 6 feet square [1.8 m]; the dome is 3 feet 2 inches diameter [95 cm] and about the same in height; the circular formed dome, given in plate 5, is 7 feet 3 inches in diameter [2.86 m], and its height is 3 feet [90 cm]. The cave, of which a plan is given in the same plate, was lager; still it is only 13 feet square [4 m], and the dome is 9 feet in diameter [2.7 m]. This had eight small niches, two near each corner: these were about 2 feet 6 inches wide [75 cm], and about 3 feet high [90 cm], arched at the top. In one of these Caves part of a circular base was found under the dome. There was not enough left to determinate whether it was the pedestal of a statue, or the base of a small Tope.Archaeologically interesting man-made rock chambers (note 1), complete with mounds and ruins, are reported by MASSON (note 2), SIMPSON (1881: 198 note 2), and SIMPSON (1882: 329) from a situation north of –>Hoda Raja's Palace in the -Tappa Zurgaran- (Tappa Zurgaran), or Goldsmith's / Jeweller's Mound west of Ada (note 3).