1923.] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XVII, ae 
see Darmesteter, Le Zend-Avesta, Vol. HI, 1893, p. xl; and 
La letire de Tansar, in the Journal Asiatique, 1894. 
of Shapur, son of Papak. So far as I know the drachm 
published by Cunningham and this hemidrachm are the 
only coins known of Shapir, king of Persis, and of the house of 
Sasan. 
Description. 
Metal.—Silver. Size.—'66 in. Weight.—25 grs. 
Obverse.—The bust of Shapir to left with Parthian helmet, 
with ear-flap, and fillets floating behind: the hair and beard 
dressed in curls. Grénetis. 
egend.—Commencing behind the helmet, Bagi Shahpihri 
malka, ‘* The divinity Shapir, the king,” 
Reverse —The bust of Papak to left with Parthian helmet, 
surmounted by a peculiar plume, and fillets floating behind : 
the hair and beard dressed in curls. Grénetis. 
Legend.—Commencing behind the helmet, bareh bagi 
Papak(t) malka, “son of the divinity Papak, the king.” 
Plate I, 1. 
_ _ The word bagi means “ divinity ’’ and corresponds to 
alaha of the Chaldaeo-Pahlavi and @EOY of the Greek texts 
of the Sasanian trilingual inscriptions at Naqsh-i Riistam (see 
FPlandin et Coste, Voyage en Perse, Vol. IV, Plate 181), 23 Glahia 
on the coins of the Persids and @EOS of the Seleucids. Bagi 
has been taken as an adjective, whenever it occurs among the 
titles of the Sasanian kings, in their inscriptions and coins; 
but the equivalent daha. in Chaldaeo-Pahlavi, is against its 
being so understood, for this latter is clearly a substantive, 
meaning “ god.” If it were an adjective, we might expect 
lahi, as it really means “divine.” In bagi, the 7 is no 
adjectival termination, but the vowel so frequently found 
