220 



TRADERS AND TKADIXG-SHIPS. 



only about seventy have been found, ranging in time from the 

 year 742 to 952. These coins are the more interesting in that 

 not only the names of the rulers, but of the cities, which then 

 existed, where they were coined, are given ; many are of the 

 Samanid dynasty. More than twenty thousand have been 



Fi<r. 1021. Ornaments round pedestal. Gotland. 



Fi. 1022. Fig. 1023. 



Ornaments fastened to the bottom of a vase, representing two four-footed animals, 

 one of which is eating the fruit growing upon a tree. Gotland. | real size. 



found in Sweden and Gotland ; some of these, perhaps, came 

 from Spain. They were probably brought by the ships which 

 made voyages to the Mediterranean. 



The two vases 011 p. 219 were found with Arabic coins and 

 seven other silver vessels, and are probably of Arabic origin. 



