History of Irkeshtam

Juandu (Wade-Giles: Chüan-tu), is said in Hanshu 96A to contain, "380 households, 1100 individuals and 500 persons able to bear arms." It also states that: "Clothing is of the same type as that of the Wu-sun. [The people] go after water and pasture, keeping close to the Ts'ung-ling (or Pamir Mountains. Oiginally they were of the Sai race."

It is probable that it was Irkeshtam which Ptolemy 6.13.2 refers to as the Stone Tower, and he makes it clear it was under the control of Sai or Sakai people;