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X. 



Pieter Brueys van's Hage Opper Koopman en Hoofde Administrateur 

 Overleeden te Chintsura, den 23 Augustus A 1793 in den Ouderdom 

 van 52 Jaaren 9 maanden 17 dagen. 



Crest— a flower gules : arms— party per pale vert and argent, dexter a 

 column argent crowned or, sinister a flower gules. 



XI. 



P. V. D. Obijt 12 Janu : A«- 1701. 



Crest — 3 torches argent flamed gules : arms — party per fess gules & 

 sable (not very clear). 



XII. 



N. B. Obijt 19 Meij A <> 1683. 



Crest — horse's head erased argent: arms— party per pale argent & 



sable dexter a demi-eagle displayed sable, sinister a trade mark ? /[i 



XIII. r\B * 



Obijt. b. V. h. (in german minuscules) den. 9 Juni anno 1665. 

 Arms, or, in chief a lion decouped gules, in base 3 pellets. Crest — lion 

 decouped gules. 



3. Belies from Ancient Persia, No. III. — By General A. Cunning- 

 ham, C. S. I. 

 (Abstract.) 



Since writing his second notice of the very curious and interesting 

 discoveries of Ancient Persian Relics on the northern bank of the Oxus, 

 General Cunningham has obtained three more gold ornaments, and about 

 twenty more coins in all metals. 



The coins consist of a gold Daric and a silver Sigle, of the old Per- 

 sian mint ; a tetradrachm and four drachmas of Antiochus Soter ; a gold 

 stater and three copper coins of Diodotus of two different types ; a tetra- 

 drachm, a silver Obolus, and a copper coin of Euthydemus ; three tetra- 

 drachms of Antimachus Theos, with a drachma and a nickel coin of 

 Agathokles. The silver obolus of Euthydemus is of the standing Herakles 

 type, and is. General Cunningham believes, unique. General Cunningham 

 again remarks on the continued absence of any Parthian coins, which, as 

 he has said before, goes far to prove that the deposit must have been made 

 before the time of Mithridates I (Arsakes VI). The absence of the coins of 

 Eukratides, the contemporary of Mithridates I, points to the same conclu- 

 sion ; and General Cunningham now feels pretty confident that the deposit 

 must have been made before their time, and not later than 200 to 180 B. C. 



The principal ornament is a gold cylinder of fine workmanship, much 

 superior to that of any Persian gems that General Cunningham has seen. 

 There are two distinct scenes represented on the cylinder, both illustrating 



