102 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
In a subsequent Mémoire sur le monumens et les inscrip- 
tions de Kirmanschah ou Bisoutoun, et sur divers autres monu- 
mens Sassanids (1815) in the ‘ Mémoires de l'Institut Royal de 
France, classe d’histoire,’ Vol. IT, pp. 162-242, he corrected some 
of his previous mistakes. The results published by him, in his 
various memoirs, have formed the basis on which all subsequent 
investigations have been founded. 
The first to apply these results to further researches was 
Sir W. Ouseley in his ‘ Observations on some medals and gems, 
bearing inscriptions in the Pahlawi or ancient Persick character ’ 
(London, 1801). By means of De Sacy’s discoveries he was 
In 1811 Visconti in his ‘ Iconographie grecque ’ (Vol. ITT, 
pl. 51), published several coins of the early Sasanian kings, 
which he deciphered by aid of the discovery of De Sac y: 
T. C. Tychsen of Géttingen in 1789 published some Sasa- 
nian coins without providing their reading and later on wrote 
was to apply the results obtained by De Sacy and Visconti 
(‘ Mem. Soc. Gétting.,’ 2nd series, Vol. II, 181 1-13), and venture 
on a few guesses. 
Mionnet in his ‘ Description de médailles antiques,’ (Vol. V, 
1811; and Supplement Vol. VIII, 1837 ), profiting by the works 
In 1822 Fraehn published at Mittau an essay on the coins 
of the type of Khusrau II with legends in Pahlavi and in his 
two memoirs (‘ Journal Asiatique,’ June 1824, Vol. III and March 
was a drachm struck by Hejaj bin Yusaf (of which the illus- 
tration is found in Vol. IV, p. 338). The reading proposed was 
contested by De Sacy. The honour of having opened the way 
of the Arab branch of Pahlavi numismatics belongs to Fraehn. 
He deciphered all but the Pahlavi legend, and it was Olshau- 
Se who, in 1843, read this legend sanat hasht haftat (year 
The same journal (‘ Journal Asiatique,’ 1823, Vol. II, pp. 
143-150) contains the observations of E. Rask, the celebrated 
Danish scholar, then in India, on the Zand and Pahlavi alpha- 
ets. He seems to have ignored the works of De Sacy as they 
