162 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S.. XIII, 



thirteenth regnal year on 27th June 590, as can be proved from 

 the coins of Khusrau II, Bahrain Chobln and Bistam. They 

 reckoned the commencement of their first regnal year from 27th 

 June 590. That shows that the deposition and the death of 

 Hormazd IV took place after the year had changed, otherwise 

 they would have reckoned even the few days preceding the 

 new year as their first regnal year. 



Tt must have taken some time for the news of the events 

 in Ctesiphon, the capital, to reach distant Hekatompylos, and 

 in the meantime coins were struck and issued in the "name of 

 Hormazd IV bearing the year 13. (See what is said by 

 Gutschmid, Z.D.M.G., 1380, p. 746). 



Mordtmann (Z.D.M.G., 1880, p. 126) mentions an unique 

 piece in his collection dated in the year 1 3 {sij deh) of Hormazd 

 IV. He says : " Till now no other specimen is known of the 

 year 13. The letters are accurate and distinct and particularly 

 the year 13 is undoubtedly entire; it is written sij deli" Such 

 is the case with the coin now described. 



Mordtmann's coin was struck at Gondishapur, the citv 

 between Dizful (Lat. 32° 22' N, Long. 4 8° 27' E) and Shushter 

 (Lat ,32° 3' N, Long. 48° 53' E) whose ruins are now known as 

 .Jundishapur. It was founded bv Shapur I and Khusrau I 

 instituted there a university specially for the study of medicine. 



">J'~ is^ Jondi Shapour, or joUi ^oJ* Gondi Shapour, 



is a considerable city, populous and pleasant, abounding in dates 



and the produce of agriculture." (Ouselev, lbn Haukal, p. 77). 



• 1,roum (Les legendes dcs monnaies Sassanids. p. 49) speaks of 



a piece of Khusrau II of the year 39 (nuj sth) in the Hermitage 



Museum, struck at Darabgerd. There is another in the Bartho- 



omaei collection (PI. XXX, fig. 43) struck at Meibud. The 



vear 6.) commenced on 17th June 628. though Khusrau II had 



>een deposed on the 25th February 628, and killed four days 



later on the 29th. Drouin explains this fact by the ignorance 



TJX the king in the cities rem °te &>** the capital 



2trl Sup P° r ^ ™y the °ry. (See also what is said by Noel- 



gS.SSTW; ££ Mordtma ™ Z.D.M.G • 1880. p. 140; and 

 Gutschmid, Z.D.M.G., 1880. p. 746). 



llth October, 1916. Furdoonjee D. J. Paruck. 



186. On a Silver Coin op the Sassanian ring Khorezad- 



[Note.— In order that 



Khusrau. 



hended I have tLn ^ «r h End Gerraan quotations be well corapre- 

 EnS ralVth? • fit t0 L give their fairl y ^eral translation into 

 g ' ather than g' vm g them in the original language.] 



with A t^e° r nl, n ti t0 PPS' V le eii3a y 8 of Mordtmann, combined 

 wit* the plates of Bartholomaei, should be used still as the 



