1882 ] Exliihition of pottery found at Mahesar. 105 



the most promising, JT^cTcfr gomitaha. The Elephant is drawn with much 

 spirit — and I should like to know to what king we owe this fine coin." 

 (15th June, 1882.) 



Dr. Hoernle remarked tliat, so far as it was possihle to judge from the 

 impression of Mr. Long's coin, it seemed to be a duplicate of the Maha- 

 nada coin. He had not been able to learn where Mr. Long's coin was found ; 

 that and the Mahanada coin seemed to be the only two specimens of this 

 kind known ; and he thought an effort should be made to secure the Ma- 

 hanada coin for the Society's collection. The general type of the coin 

 certainly seemed to be Gupta ; but the female figure appeared to be rather 

 more Indo-Scythian than Gupta. He, therefore, thought that if the coin 

 belonged to the Guptas, it should probably be assigned to one of the earliest 

 kings of that dynasty ; and if General Cunningham's new initial date of the 

 Gupta era, 167 A. D,, was correct, the coin may have to be assigned to as 

 early a date as the 2nd or 3rd century A. D. 



Eabu P. N. BosE exhibited some earthen vessels discovered in a well 

 (about 18 feet deep and covered above by some 15 feet of the alluvium) at 

 Mahesar and fragments of pottery, bones, teeth, freshwater shells, &c., found 

 in the well and its vicinity, and read a note on the same. The vessels had 

 their mouths directed downward ; some were quite empty ; others were filled 

 partially or entirely with an indurated marl presenting a peculiar vesicular 

 texture (the vesicles being lined with a brownish incrustation, probably the 

 remains of decomposed cereal grains) and containing bones of birds and small 

 mammals and bits of charcoal. Babu P. N. Bo?e concluded his note with 

 speculations on (1) the antiquity of the well, (2) the purpose for which it 

 was sunk, and (3) the cause of its inhumation. The most eligible hypo- 

 thesis that has presented itself to him about the gJiards (earthen vessels) 

 is that they were dedicated to the dead, with cooked cereals and meat and 

 the ashes after cremation. 



This note will be published in full in the Journal, Part I. 



Mr Cockburn remarked that he regarded the stone implement referred 

 to by Babu P. N. Bose as a natural water-worn pebble of quartzite which 

 had been utilized as a rude chopper or hammer by man. Its chipped and 

 battered edges were unequivocally of artificial origin. Specimens of the 

 same type as that exhibited had been found by himself in the Banda Dis- 

 trict, and others very closely resembling it were described and figured by 

 Abbott in his recent work on Primitive Industry (Boston, 1881). Of 

 these the specimen figured at page 427, fig. 401, came nearest the Narbudda 

 implement, but figures 24 and 130 were also not far removed. 



With regard to the pottery exhibited, the clay vessels were perhaps of 

 antique types, but it would not be safe to assert that these patterns were no 



