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chained_bear commented on the word eskase
"The contract sets the terms by which two sons rent a mud-built 'eskase' location for burial from two brothers. ... Zoroastrians disposed of their dead first by placing them in a structure outside, called a Tower of Silence by modern Zoroastrians, where animals of prey could eat the flesh, and then placing the cleaned bones in a well, called an eskase in this contract. Yet, because no such burial wells have been found yet in the region of Sogdiana, others suggest the word may refer to a naus structure for the remains of the dead like those built in Panjikent."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 134
January 3, 2017