8 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
this very title, which Ardashir I took previously to that of 
malkan malka Airan ** king of the kings of Eran.”” 
gold coin (weight, 131 grs.) of Ardashir I, in the British 
Museum, with this title, published by Thomas, Numismatic 
Chronicle, Vol a ¥e 42.5. Di 180, Fig. 1) and reproduced by 
Mordtmann (Z.D.M.G., 1854, Plate X, Fig. 5) in stamped 
facsimile, 
1V. A Drachm of Narses. 
firms this inscription. I find that this statement is also 
confirmed by the Arabian writer Abu Obeidah (see Macoudi, 
Prairies d’Or, Vo). II, p. 238). For the above statement of 
Sebeos. see the article entitled “Essai d’une Histoire de la 
Dynastic des Sassanides ” by Patkanian in the Journal 
Asiatique, 1866, p. 149; translated from the original Russian 
into French by Prud’hom me. 
The genealogy of the first three Bahrams and Narses has 
been variously stated by different historians, but from the 
inscription on rocks we are now in a position to assign their 
correct parentage. 
1. Ardashir I (224-241) 
2. Shapar ! (241-272) 
: | Aen aT 
3. Hormazd I (272-273) 4. Bahram I (273-276) 7. Narses 
| (293-303) 
6. Bahram III (293) 5. Bahram II (276-293) 


in 1829, being acquired by * L’ Institut des Langues Orientales 
de St. Petersbourg ” (see De Markoff, Catalogue des Monnaies 
Sassanides, ete., p. iv}, . 
On other known coins of Narses the inscription commences 
behind the globe surmounting the crown, but here is a speci- 
men in which the legend commences in front of the bust. 
