490 , 
opinionem defendere, non possum tamen, quin, quos hic excitat te- 
stes, ut suspectos repudiem. Jam alibi mo°:°(*), numum Mars- 
denianum XXXI, in quo editor urbis nomen px) duJ+ Medinet - 
el- salam legit, mihi imaginem ejus ære expressam intuenti potius 
p}ull Je in Kafr-el- Salam (nec a. 168, sed a. 161) cusum 
esse videri; Numum autem XXXII, quem editor & 4 in el- Mu- 
‘hammediä signatum esse vult, ego, si quid hic quoque ex imagine 
ære expressà judicare licet, potius 8 pal in el-Ba/fré cusum censeo. 
Sed est, quod mirer, conjecturam vagam ïllam et levem ex- 
promi potuisse a Marsdenio, qui libellum infra citatum (**) ad ma- 
num habuisse videatur; nam non nisi ex hujus p. 16 desumta sunt, 
quæ p. 5 Numism. OO. illustr. de numo Umaijadico anni 84 im 
Mus. Duc. de Blacas asservato leguntur. | 
In hoc autem tandem ego libello (p. 19) caussam hane, 
quæ, ut vidimus, per plenum fere sæculum occulta et involuta man- 
serat, aperiebam atque Mu'hammediam numorum non esse intelli- 
gendam aliam urbem quam AÆeyam asserebam. Tune enim tempo- 
ris mihi licebat et Jakuti Lexicon geograph. majus et Schems - el - 
dini Damasceni Cosmographiam et Firusabadensis Lexicon Arab. 
evolvere, quibus libris antea carueram et ex quibus intef urbes, 
Mu‘hammediæ nomine insignitas, Reyam etiam esse intelligebam. Jam 
ry, amounting nearly to proof; for it cannot, without the most direct evi- 
dence, be admitted that two coins of the same denomination should , in the sa- 
me year, be struck by the same prince, in two districts of his capital, under 
distinct names. The site of Muhammediah must therefore be looked for else- 
where; but-it will probably be found at no great distance from the seat of go- 
vernment. As the name does not occur at an earlier period ,- We may suppose 
the city, -suburb, or palace (as variously conjectured ) to have been built by 
this Khalif (Mahdy) and called after his‘own original name of Muhammed. 
() Mémoires de l'Acad.. mp. T. IX, p: 612. (p. m-. 50.) . 
C*) Das Muhammedanische Münzkabinet des Asiat. Museums’ zu St. Petersburg (ed. 
a. 4821.) 
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