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philology and art. The historian has under his eyes a succes- 
sive and almost complete list of the Sasinian kings ; even 
Papak, the father of Ardashir, the founder of the Sasanian 
dynasty, is not missed. The different epochs of the Pahlavi 
Mordtmann having replied (in the ‘ Z.D.M.G.’ for 1858 and 
1865) to several criticisms made by Dorn, Bartholomaei, 
Yezdegerd, of Khusrau, of the Hijra and of Tabaristan em-. 
ployed on their coins. 
In his posthumous memoir, in the ‘ Z.D.M.G.’ 1880, Vol. 
XXXIV, pp. 1-162, which is wholly devoted to the royal 
Sdsanian coins, the earlier essays have been brought up to 
date. 
The first published catalogue of Sasinian coins is that by 
A. de Markoff (1889), describing about 500 coins of the Sasa- 
nian series in the cabinet of the Institut des Langues Orienials 
at St Petersburg. 
Sir A Cunningham has published some rare Sasinian coins 
in the ‘ Numismatic Chronicle’ for 1893, p. 178, pl. XIII. 
Several papers have been contributed by E. Drouin on 
Sasfnian numismaties, of which the three important ones are : 
‘ Observations sur les monnaies 4 légendes en pehlvi, in the 
Revue Archéologique’ for 1884 and 1885 ; ‘ Histoire de l’Epi- 
