Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Turkestan. Kotel (sakaia) pozhertvovannyi Emirom Timurom Kuraganom grobnitsie sviatago Sultana Akhmeda Iassaviia

Photograph shows two-ton ritual cauldron composed of seven metals to symbolize hospitality and unity in mausoleum built in 1399 in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, by order of Uzbek national hero Emir Timur Kuragan for religious leader and poet Akhmed Yassavi.
Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 4.