Sarnath the Doomed
citySarnath the Doomed was a city that stood in the land of Mnar when mankind was young, recalled by the narrator — together with Ib, carven of gray stone before mankind existed — as he confronted the incomprehensible antiquity of the nameless city.
Sarnath enters the record only as a measure of age. Grasping at the vast and inarticulate antiquity of the nameless city before him, the narrator reached for the oldest names he knew — and found that even these fell short of it.
Of the city itself nothing further is told here: neither the doom its name carries, nor what became of Ib, the gray-stone city that shared the land of Mnar with it.
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Every fact above traces back to the text.
“thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that stood in the land Mnar when mankind was young”
The Nameless City (1921)
“of Ib, that was carven of gray stone before mankind existed”
The Nameless City (1921)