1.3. Architectural Palimpsests: Exploring Matters of Production, Inhabitation and Perception in the Vernacular Architecture of Nako

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“…Though the analysis is incisive and convincing, the way the argument is structured makes it difficult to extract anything like a clear-cut conclusion; it is simply too spread out to pinpoint precise page references. 49 Ibid., 203.…”

“…48 The winter capital of the Uyghurs, Kočo, seems to be the focus of the whole realm, or even identical with it. 49 The holiness of a whole city is a concept found in another context. In a fragment of a text which is probably part of a historical elaboration, there is a description of how a ruined city called ordo uluš-probably to be understood as 'residence'-was 46 Quoted after Róna-Tas, "Materialien," 41, where it is stated correctly that the inscription reflects the old ideas about kut even though it was written after the conversion to Manichaeism.…”

“…Walther Heissig andHans-Joachim Klimkeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1987) What is of special interest here is that one of the rooms within ruin Q was named 'room with inscriptions' (Germ. Inschriftenzimmer).51 In the findings 49 According to the preserved records, ruin Q in Kočo was visited and excavated only during the First German Turfan expedition in 1902-1903. This expedition was led by Albert Grünwedel (1856Grünwedel ( -1935, an Indologist, Tibetologist and Art Historian with great expertise in Buddhist Studies, who was the first director of the Indian Department at the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde (1904)(1905)(1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914)(1915)(1916)(1917)(1918)(1919)(1920)(1921).…”